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Displaying event dates in channel entries loop

grege 9 Oct 2012 08:40 problem, active

I have a channel with a Low Events field called "event".

I am using the following code snippet from a jquery function, trying to pull data from channel entries. Other fields are coming in fine (e.g. {title}, {event_host}{url_title}{/event_host}), but not the start and end dates from the event field. I don't know if I'm even the right syntax to access the date fields correctly.

{exp:channel:entries channel="events" backspace="2"}
{
title: '{title}',
url: '{site_url}host/{event_host}{url_title}{/event_host}',
{if {event}{event_dates:all_day}{/event}}
start: new Date({event}{event_dates:start_date format="%Y,%n-1,%j,%G,%i "}{/event}),
end: new Date({event}{event_dates:end_date format="%Y,%n-1,%j,%G,%i "}{/event}),
allDay: true
{if:else}
start: new Date({event}{event_dates:start_date format="%Y,%n-1,%j,%G,%i "}{/event}),
end: new Date({event}{event_dates:end_date format="%Y,%n-1,%j,%G,%i "}{/event}),
allDay: false
{/if}
},
{/exp:channel:entries}

Replies

1. Low 9 Oct 2012 08:42

   If your Low Events field is called "event", then use this syntax:
   
   

   {event:start_date} 
    {event:end_date} 
      So basically: 
    {low_events_field_name:xxxx}

2. grege 9 Oct 2012 09:19

   Thanks! Mostly working now - field dates showing nicely. Only problem is EE doesn't seem to be parsing the conditional tags:
   
   {if event:all_day}
   // do some JS stuff
   {if:else}
   // do some other JS stuff
   {/if}
   
   But suspect this is an EE thing rather than Low Event field.

3. Low 9 Oct 2012 09:26

   Could well be. Try one of these options as the conditional opening statement:
   
   

   {if event:all_day == "y"}

   
   

   {if "{event:all_day}" == "y"}

   
   

   {if '{event:all_day}' == 'y'}