[SOLVED] Global Content Blocks within a Calendar event?

[tophers]

I have a schedule of on-call personnel that I'm trying to add to a CGCalendar. Since contact info can change, I've put each person into a gbc for ease of editing. I then set up a calendar event for their time period, and want to call the gbc inside the event Details.

So far it will work - once you've clicked on the summary to get to the details page. My problem is I'd like to simply show this info in the summary view, and not have a click-through to a detail page at all. This is where the gbc fails - it simply show the code:

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{global_content name='on-call-john'} 

Rather than displaying the contents of the gbc itself.

I'm calling the calendar with this:

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{cms_module module="CGCalendar" display="upcominglist" upcominglisttemplate="upcoming_on_call" category="Environmental On-Call" limit="1"} 

Are gbcs not processed inside the Calendar? Or is there a different way to approach this?

[calguy1000]

use the smarty {eval} tag...see the smarty docs..

[tophers]

That looks like it may work, but I confess it's beyond my limited (but ever-expanding!) programming skills. I want to set up multiple calendar events, each one calling a different gbc (person). How would I use the {eval} tag in my template to accomplish this?

At first glance it looks like my GBC needs to be set up like:

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name = First Last
Cel = 123-456-7890
Home = 123-456-7890
Office = 123-456-7890

Then my Calendar template needs to have:

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{config_load file='{global_content name='on-call-john'} '
{eval var=#name#}
{eval var=#Cel#}
{eval var=#Home#}
{eval var=#Office#}

I'm sure I have errors here already (is 'config_load file' the right syntax?). But even if this worked, how do I change people with each event? Or do I use the above code in the actual Calendar Summary?

This project is starting to show me why I need a full-time programmer on staff again...

[tophers]

This project is starting to show me why I need a full-time programmer on staff again...

Or just leave it to someone who's brain is running at full capacity - my designer figured it out. In the template (in this case the Summary template for the Calendar), where I'm calling the content, use this:

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{eval var=$event.event_details}

And viola! My GBC is displayed properly. Thanks again Calguy - saved my butt once again.