APEX Calendar Help - I'm stuck!

Question

Hello,
First let me preface this by saying I am not an APEX expert and have been learning on the fly for the past few weeks. As a trainer for my organization it was important to have a dynamic training and events calendar with some specific features. I found a pre-packaged [Sample Calendar|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/packaged-apps-090453.html] application, uploaded that and have modified it to fit about 90% of my needs. Here is where I am stuck:
1. I need to change how the events sort. I need alpha sorting, ideally.
2. I currently have two different calendar groupings, soon to be three. Meaning, I have some events labelled as Training & Events and others labelled as Birthdays. I would like to color code these on my calendar so that it is clear to users what is what. I know how to change the highlighting color of all events, but not how to specify based on an identifiable column in my table.
3. I created a page to reflect event details. When you click on a given event, it redirects to another page and shows the name, date, start time, web conference and dial-in details. The problem is the latter two items are showing blank when there is data in my table. Ideas?
Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated. I am using APEX 4.2.
Thank you,
Christina

Answer 1

Hi,
1. I need to change how the events sort. I need alpha sorting, ideally. - The current calendar design overrides your sorting and uses the Calendar date column instead. There is a workaround for this provided your Calendar is SQL based.
select display_column, cast(date_column as timestamp) + numtodsinterval('0.00' || rownum,'SECOND') shift_date, sort_column from
(select display_column, date_column, sort_column
from your_table
order by sort_column desc)
http://sathishkumarjs.blogspot.in/2013/05/trick-to-sort-apex-calendar-data-based.html
2. I currently have two different calendar groupings, soon to be three. Meaning, I have some events labelled as Training & Events and others labelled as Birthdays. I would like to color code these on my calendar so that it is clear to users what is what. I know how to change the highlighting color of all events, but not how to specify based on an identifiable column in my table. -
To acheive this yo need to modify the SQL statement with additional case statement to get the color of your choice and modify the display column as custom and add the column value as background/foreground color of your choice this needs some custom HTML / this also can be achieved by Modifying the Calendar Template. if needed will blog this with practical example.
3. I created a page to reflect event details. When you click on a given event, it redirects to another page and shows the name, date, start time, web conference and dial-in details. The problem is the latter two items are showing blank when there is data in my table. Ideas? -
If you mean some data columns displays correctly will others does not show data, want you to check the data source of those columns, whether it is similar to columns which work fine, if not want to know does the columns which does not display the value is in anyway related to display / date column used by calendar.
thanks
Sathish