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fnCalendar ( date_field ; parameter ; iteration ; highlight_weekends ; holiday_list )

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Andrew Butt, Drewsol
http://www.drewsol.com

c. 2009 Drewsol. This CF consolidates a simple calendar display and selection tool complete with limitless iterations, highlights, holidays, and tooltips.

Sample Input:
fnCalendar ( "6/1/2009" ; "calendar" ; 3 ; "" ; "" )


fnCalendar ( "5/28/2009" ; "calendar_highlights" ; 1 ; 1 ; "included" )

fnCalendar ( "5/5/2009" ; "tooltip_long" ; 1 ; "" ; "included" )
Sample Output:
(Shows month of August 2009 in 42 repeating fields. Days outside of August are grayed.)

(Shows 42 repeating fields that highlight the weekend and function-included holidays.)

(Shows tooltip upon mouseover:)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Cinco de Mayo


 Then copy & paste into FileMaker Advanced's Edit Custom Function window.

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Description:

c. 2009 Drewsol. This CF consolidates a simple calendar display and selection tool complete with limitless iterations, highlights, holidays, and tooltips.

Detailed instructions and a sample script are included in the CF's header.

ChangeLog:
v1.6 - Added provision for 'globally stored' calendar (no redraw upon layout access), cleaner instructions/commenting. Included lite version (same calculation minus documentation and integrated holiday list).
v1.5 - Added instructions for a single-layer conditional formatting method.
v1.4 - LGPL license added.
v1.3 - Integrated holiday list and calendar highlights transferred from 'condition' to 'statement block' to limit unnecessary code execution.
v1.2 - Optimized for performance. Support for unlimited iterations and previous months. Integrated American holiday list.
v1.1 - Support for three calendar display iterations, holidays, weekends, instructions.
v1.0 - Basic function, field independence, tooltips.

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This is my Custom Function and I want to edit it

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Feel free to use, distribute, and modify. It's open source.

Drew Wesley, Los
June 08, 2009 2:00pm

Oops, I hit enter after typing "Los".

Drew Wesley, Los Angeles, CA
June 08, 2009 2:01pm

Thanks Drew. That's very generous.

Chris Manton, London, UK
June 09, 2009 8:53am

Doesn't work; all but first cell empty.
1.5 worked OK.

Bruce Robertson, Redmond WA
February 05, 2010 11:52am

If you're using the global calculation option, you'll need (1) to use the date as a trigger field and (2) the Extend function as noted in Step 3a in the documentation:
Let (
trigger = CAL::Date_G ;
fnCalendar ( Extend ( <date field> ) ; "calendar" ; 1 ; "" ; "" )
)

Andrew Butt, Los Angeles, CA
February 06, 2010 10:17am

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