use views_embed_view [#737442]

I'm hoping this is just a simple thing that I'm missing, but I haven't been able to figure it out and haven't found any documentation, forum posts, blog posts, etc that address this either. :-(

I want to have an events sidebar block that displays the mini calendar and a list of events on that day below it (similar to how the events calendar works on this site: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/).

Is there an easy way to do this using Views and the Calendar module or am I looking at having to write a custom module/block for it?

Comments

Comment #1

arlinsandbulte CreditAttribution: arlinsandbulte commented 10 March 2010 at 14:01

You could just use two blocks.

Comment #2

shawn_smiley CreditAttribution: shawn_smiley commented 10 March 2010 at 21:09

I thought of that, just put the upcoming and calendar blocks in the sidebar and throw a little jquery code in there to link them together.

I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a simpler way available that I was missing before writing some code.

Comment #3

ricmel111 CreditAttribution: ricmel111 commented 14 September 2010 at 16:35

Did you ever figure how to do this?

Comment #4

shawn_smiley CreditAttribution: shawn_smiley commented 14 September 2010 at 17:22

No, we decided just to have a view list of the next 5 upcoming events and a link to the full calendar page.

Comment #5

ricmel111 CreditAttribution: ricmel111 commented 15 September 2010 at 07:52

OK, thanks. Was hoping you had as it''s exactly what I need.

Comment #6

sketchysteven CreditAttribution: sketchysteven commented 30 March 2011 at 20:25

Title:

How to attach a mini-calendar to an event list view

» use views_embed_view

I had something very similar come up. To accomplish a two column events block (mini calendar | next 3 events), I created a new block (add block), ticked on the input format for PHP (to add my own HTML and php), then added HTML and php (google the info on views_embed_view) to place the different piece of content in the block from views.

I then styled the HTML via css and had something usable.

Thought I'd add this... in case someone stumbles on this (like I did) via google and needs another rabbit hole.