Events Listing still not sorting correctly

[gabeo]

Hello, I am running the following set up:

CMS Made Simple version 1.11.11
PHP version 5.4.27
MySQL version 5.5.37-cll
Apache version 2.2.27
Operating system Linux
Having Trouble with Events Modules

This has been a re-occurring issue. I just recently did a full update to 1.11.11 and dates are still not sorting correctly. The client enters the expiration dates and I put it to sort by desc.....but it will not sort the dates correctly. PLEASE HELP!!!!

You can see the issue live right now at http://www.wcsmradio.com/index.php/composite-schedule

Here is my system information:
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Cms Version: 1.11.11
Installed Modules:
CMSMailer: 5.2.2
CMSPrinting: 1.0.5
FileManager: 1.4.5
MenuManager: 1.8.6
MicroTiny: 1.2.7
ModuleManager: 1.5.8
News: 2.14.4
Search: 1.7.11
ThemeManager: 1.1.8
CGExtensions: 1.42.2
ExtendedTools: 1.3.3
RSSSimplePie: 1.0
RSS2HTML: 1.2.5.2
CGSimpleSmarty: 1.7.4
CGCalendar: 1.14.3
EventsListing: 1.6.2

Config Information:
php_memory_limit:
process_whole_template:
max_upload_size: 200000000
url_rewriting: internal
page_extension:
query_var: page
image_manipulation_prog: GD
auto_alias_content: true
locale:
default_encoding: utf-8
admin_encoding: utf-8
set_names: true

Php Information:
phpversion: 5.4.27
md5_function: On (True)
gd_version: 2
tempnam_function: On (True)
magic_quotes_runtime: Off (False)
E_STRICT: 0
E_DEPRECATED: 0
memory_limit: 256M
max_execution_time: 30
output_buffering: On
safe_mode: Off (False)
file_uploads: On (True)
post_max_size: 20M
upload_max_filesize: 200M
session_save_path: /tmp (1777)
session_use_cookies: On (True)
xml_function: On (True)
xmlreader_class: On (True)

Server Information:
Server Api: cgi-fcgi
Server Db Type: MySQL (mysqli)
Server Db Version: 5.5.37
Server Db Grants: Could not find a suitable "GRANT ALL" permission. This may mean you could have problems installing or removing modules. Or even adding and deleting items, including pages
Server Time Diff: No filesystem time difference found

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[paulbaker]

I don't use Events Listing (isn't CGCalendar more flexible?) but if you read the release notes for the latest version (which you have) here
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/files/509
it mentions modifying existing templates. Have you done that?

[gabeo]

Ok, I just updated the templates and it is still not sorting correctly. I want them to sort by end date and seems to be going by start date but I can't tell for sure.

Here is the CMS language that I am using.
{cms_module module="EventsListing" template="WCSM" categories="96.7 Online Broadcast" cutoff=30 sortdesc=false eventslimit=7}

I don't remember if I tried CGCalendar or not...but I need it to list the events but not in a calendar format. Whatever I tried before would only display in a Calendar layout.

[paulbaker]

I don't know EventsListing so I can help with specifics (tried to bring up its Help from Module Manager but none was shown).

The tag you pasted doesn't mention any field to sort by....does it sort by end date by default? Maybe that's it.

CGCalendar has a template and way of calling it to display upcoming dates, here's a little screen snippet showing it in action on a live site.

CGCalendar upcoming

[gabeo]

I wish that it did end date by default, but it appears to be start date instead. Here are the parameters available to use:

(optional) lang="en_US" - Deprecated - Override the current language that is used for selecting translated strings.
(optional) template="default" - Specifies the name of a template used to format the Data. If not specified, the value of this parameter is "default" which is the standard default template created during installation.
(optional) categories="" - Limit the events to this categories (name of an category). You use more categories - just using a comma as limiter (category1,category2).
(optional) cutoff="" - Set the number of days prior to the current date to cut off the display of events. Events with end dates more than this number of days old will not be displayed.
(optional) sortdesc="" - Set the sorting order to descending. Valid entries are "true" or "false". If not set, default is "false".
(optional) eventslimit="" - Limit the number of events to show. If not set, default is to show all.
(optional) pastonly="" - Show events in the past only.

[paulbaker]

I see no option for sorting by end date. Looks like EventsListing is not going to do what you want.

[gabeo]

Is CG Calendar also called Calguys Calendar? If so, what calendar template are you using?