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that you can use to jump forward or back by the span of time set in
the yellow control form to the right. Clicking the "Show Current" box
will immediately set the starting date to the present, without changing
the span.The Event List view is extremely flexible, whereas the Calendar View is intentionally constrained to show only one month, in a way likely to fit on a single sheet of paper when printed. Without that constraint in Event List view, the shape and size of the page can vary as much as needed to contain the events you'd like to see. If you find that you'd like to see events organized in a particular way, you will probably be able to accomplish something close using the Event List view.
At the top of the page are the tabs that allow you to switch between views. Below the tabs is the large rectangular content box, and below that are the blocks of buttons and information about the calendar's configuration. These are the same blocks of buttons that appear in Calendar View.
The main content box has a row of information and controls across the top, a table showing the events, and at the bottom, a total tally of events shown.
There is almost always a particular date associated with the Event List view, and that date is displayed on the left side of the top row within the main content box. The date may be set in the yellow control form on the right side of the same row. Enter the numeric year, month, and day. Then, enter a span with a number and a drop-down selection of time units. For example, you can select 1 day, 2 weeks, 3 months, 4 years, etc. When you've selected the date and span, submit it all with the "Go" button, and the resulting Event List will begin at the selected date, and include events through the chosen span.
On the left side of the top row are arrow links
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that you can use to jump forward or back by the span of time set in
the yellow control form to the right. Clicking the "Show Current" box
will immediately set the starting date to the present, without changing
the span.
The yellow control form also contains a check box that controls whether
open time between events will be shown. It's formatted to be
inobtrusive, in a smaller font on a muted background. Still, it's not
always desirable, and you can shut it off. The $DefaultOpentime
setting in the configuration file determines whether to show open time
when the browser first opens List View.
When events overlap in their time spans, the starting time will appear in a muted pink color that stands out from the other start times. It may alert you to potential conflicts, if the same person is expected to be in more places than one at the same time. (Jesus of Nazareth is only human being capable of that, and that's only because His humanity is united personally with the divine nature. Otherwise, not even the angels are actually capable of this, as far as we know.)
Almost all event information is presented in Event List View, including the date, start and end times, title, event description, and category. The category names are formatted as they are in Calendar View's category key, and as the event titles are formatted in Calendar View. This can be customized as described in the categories section. The Description of each event is treated as Markdown-formatted text (using PHP Markdown Extra), allowing for a simple way to enter and display formatting.
Clicking on the event title shows the details of that event and others that occur on the same day in a new page. With sufficient privileges, the user can perform other operations from the event details page, such as copying or deleting the event. All users can see the event title and description, as well as start and end times. There are links to the next or previous related events, if they exist.
There are three ways to control the scope of events that are displayed in List View. One is by using the yellow control form mentioned above to specify the time span to be displayed. You can also select particular categories to be displayed and suppress the others. This is done with the "Configure Categories" button in the button block. For more information, see the categories section. Another powerful way to specify which events to display is to set a filter, which is explained in the filtering section.
When a user is logged in with sufficient privileges, he will see a row of icons appearing at the bottom of each event's Description area. They function as follows.
The Copy icon allows the user to copy
the event by displaying the copy form in a new page. For more about
copying, see the copying section.
The Edit icon allows the user to edit
that particular event. For more about editing events, see the basic
usage section.
The Delete icon allows the user to
delete that event. Javascript must be enabled to do this, so that
FlexiCal can use a confirmation dialog to make sure you haven't
clicked the delete icon by accident.
Events that are related to other events will have two other icons, but for information on using them, please see the related events page.
When a filter has been set up (see the filtering section), Event List View will show logged-in users with sufficient privileges a series of button links across the top of the main content table. These allow the user to perform various actions on all of the matching events. They are powerful commands, with potentially wide influence on your event database. Use carefully!
Delete allows you to delete all of the events that are shown in List View.
Relate allows you to make all of the events shown in List View related to each other, regardless of previous relations. See the related events page for a description of exactly how this works.
Title allows the user to assign a single new title for all of the events shown in List View.
Text allows the user to write a new block of text for all of the events shown in List View, replacing the previous text.
Category allows the user to recategorize all of the events shown in List View with a single category to be selected.