Joomla - RSEvents!Pro Generator

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⚠️ Note: This generator is only available in the Pro version.

With this dynamic slide generator you can show the contents of your RSEvents!Pro events.

Tutorial

1
Creating a new dynamic slide

To get started, go to any Slider Settings page and add a new dynamic slide. Choose RSEvents!Pro.

2
Configuring the generator

Set up your generator. Choose the settings you want. Popular options you probably want to configure: category where your content will be pulled from, the number of slides you want to have, the ordering of the content.

You can also click on the View Records button to see the data you'll be creating your slide with.

When you're done, click on Add.

3
Editing the dynamic slide

After you saved your generator, you'll be redirected to the Slide Editor to set up the look of your slide. You can create your content by using variables.

Not sure what are the variables or how to use them? Learn how to work with variables.

Configuration

You can use these options to set what you want your generator to show.

Filter

Category

You can select the categories from where you want the events.

Groups

You can select groups to filter your events from the selected categories.

Location

You can select locations to filter your events further.

Tag

You can select tags to filter your events further.

Started

You can choose to only show those events, which haven't started yet, or already starter, or all.

Ended

You can choose to only show those events, which haven't ended yet, or already ended, or all.

Featured

You can choose to only show those events, which are featured.

All day event

You can choose to only show those events, which are all day events.

Recurring event

You can choose to only show those events, which are recurring.

Date format

You can use the format options, which are available for the PHP date function.

Time format

You can use the format options, which are available for the PHP date function.

Translate date and time

Simple text replacing, which will go through the date and time variables. You will see three examples in the default value, how you can use this. It should be from->to and separate the multiple text translations using || signs, for example:

January->Január||February->Február||Monday->Hétfő||Tuesday->Kedd
Date variable offset

By default the given time and date is based on how it is set up on your website in Joomla's System → Global Configuration → Server → Server Time Zone. But some codes are changing things, messing dates and times up, so if these values, the started and ended settings, and the date/time variables doesn't seem to be correct, you can adjust the saved date and time with this setting. This option can give a timezone offset in hours. For example: +2 or -7.

Date filter offset

By default the given time and date is based on how it is set up on your website in Joomla's System → Global Configuration → Server → Server Time Zone. But some codes are changing things, messing dates and times up, so if these values, the started and ended settings, and the date/time variables doesn't seem to be correct, you can adjust the saved date and time with this setting. This option can give a timezone offset in hours. For example: +2 or -7.

Order

Field

The field which decides the ordering of your content.

  • Start date
  • End date
  • Creation date
  • Title
  • Hits
  • ID
Order

The order direction.

  • Ascending
  • Descending

Generator Settings

Learn about the Generator Settings at the Generator Settings documentation.

Variables

These are the available variables you can use to build your dynamic slide content in the Slide Editor.

Not sure what are the variables or how to use them? Learn how to work with variables.

  • title - The name of the event.
  • description - The description of the event.
  • image, thumbnail - The event photo.
  • url - Url to the event.
⚠️ Warning: An event can have link in any of your pages, since it's a content, which doesn't connect it to anything and there is no way to know, which page do you want to link to, so this is the basic event url made by RSEvents!Pro, and you can't change it, so this might link to a different page, than your menus.
  • start_date - The start date of the event.
  • start_time - The start time of the event.
  • end_date - The end date of the event.
  • end_time - The end time of the event.
  • created - The creation date and time of the event.
  • website - The "web" link given at the contact.
  • phone - The phone number given at the contact.
  • email - The email address given at the contact.
  • metaname - The given page title at the meta info.
  • metakeywords - The given meta keywords at the meta info.
  • metadescription - The given meta description at the meta info.
  • hits - The number of hits on the event.
  • id - The ID of the event.
  • location_name - The name of the event's location.
  • location_url - The given url of the event's location.
  • location_address - The address of the event's location.
  • location_description - The description of the event's location.
  • location_coordinates_lat - The latitude of the event's location.
  • location_coordinates_long - The longitude of the event's location.
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