Refer to cells in Calendar

Question

Hello, I was wondering if there is any way to refer to specific cells in an SQL calendar without returing any values into them? The reason I ask is because I'm trying to change the background color of a range of dates between the current date and some end date, and I can't see a way of doing this without being able to refer to a cell in some way.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Joel

Answer 1

Hello,
There is no easy way to do this. The only thing I can think of is this.
1) In your calendar template add this.
In the "Day Open Format","Today Open Format","Non-Day Open Format","Weekend Open Format" add id="#DD##MM##YYYY#" to the containing HTML tag, usually a TD. This will give you a way to identify the table cells.
2) Now add some javascript. This will change 1/31/2005 to have a background color of red.
<script>
// Simple crossbrowser function to grab elements on the page
function html_GetElement(pNd){
switch(typeof (pNd)){
case 'string':node = document.getElementById(pNd); break;
case 'object':node = pNd; break;
default:node = null; break;
return node;
// now change the color
html_GetElement("31012005").style.backgroundColor="red";');
</script>
While that works for 1 day you want a range. So, printing the javascript from pl/sql would give you the flexibility to do anything.
Here's a simple example to highlight 1/12/2005 - 1/28/2005.
declare
i number;
begin
htp.p('<script>');
-- This is a simple function to grab elements in the page
-- Same function from above
htp.p(' function html_GetElement(pNd){
switch(typeof (pNd)){
case "string":node = document.getElementById(pNd); break;
case "object":node = pNd; break;
default:node = null; break;
return node;
for i in 12..28 loop
-- build the ID to be passed
htp.p(' html_GetElement("'||i||'012005").style.backgroundColor="red";');
end loop;
htp.p('</script>');
end;