Event List filtered by Tags

When creating new events I am able to tag them, but then when I go to create an events list I don't see anyway to filter that list by the tags. I can do this in the news, but the only thing I see in the event list module is a checkbox for ignore tags.

A little background: I have my main upcoming events list on the events page of my website with the calendar. I would like to have separate event list of some subpages with events just related to that page of the website. I was going to do this with tags instead of creating multiple calendars. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Well, either I forgot to do this for the event list or it isn't possible. I'm not quite sure yet.
I will check if I can add support for a tag filter in event lists too.

Best,
Helmut

Sounds good, I look forward to your next response. Also great work on the tags extension, it's a valuable addition to my website.

Hi Daniel,

I added a tag filter functionality for event lists. It's in the latest release of tags (1.5.1).
Best,
Helmut

Awesome, that is exactly what I needed. I can't thank you enough.

Hi, event tags I like great extension with thanks. I have just a question I didn't see in BE Tags setting as in News Tags. I don't know if some problem with my installation?

Anyway in event list I tried to add tags as in newslist. using $this->taglist I can show the list but how I can take the url of the tag ?

Thank you

In events, every event should have a tag field in the backend.
The tags for news are available in the "News template" which is the template you choose for a single news entry. This could be either news_full, news_latest, news_short or news_simple. You have to create your own news template and then you could use

Code:

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$this->tags

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for the tags giving your url, etc.
Best,
Helmut

I tried with $this->tags because I checked the variables available using in the template

Code:

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<pre><?php $this->showTemplateVars(); ?></pre>

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but don't show anything.

this is the part of my template

Code:

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<div class="news_tags">
<ul class="tag-chain">
<?php $counter = 0; foreach ($this->tags as $tag): ?>
<li class="tag-chain-item<?php if ($counter == 0) echo ' first'; ?><?php if ($counter == count($this->tags)-1) echo ' last'; ?><?php if ($this->showTagClass) echo ' ' . $tag['class']; ?>"><?php echo $tag['url']; ?>
<?php $counter++; endforeach; ?>[/list]
</div>

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Than in the backend module event list I didn't find the Tags Settings as present in the newslist module, is correct or maybe I missed something during the installation of the module ?

Thank your for your reply

Hm,

that's strange. I made a simple test, added some tagged news, made a news tag cloud and a news list to display it. As template I've chosen news_latest. I went to the templates section, created a new template on base of news_latest and modified this template by adding

Code:

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<pre><?php $this->showTemplateVars(); ?></pre>

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.
In the result I found the tags for every news entry:

Code:

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[tags] => Array
        (
            [0] => green
            [1] => jazz
            [2] => live
            [3] => piano
            [4] => saxophone
        )

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Code:

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    [taglist] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [url] => green
                    [tag] => green
                    [class] => green
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [url] => jazz
                    [tag] => jazz
                    [class] => jazz
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [url] => live
                    [tag] => live
                    [class] => live
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [url] => piano
                    [tag] => piano
                    [class] => piano
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [url] => saxophone
                    [tag] => saxophone
                    [class] => saxophone
                )

        )

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So it seems to work for me...
How exactly did you add your newslist with the modified template into the article?
Best,
Helmut

And again,

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Than in the backend module event list I didn't find the Tags Settings as present in the newslist module, is correct or maybe I missed something during the installation of the module ?

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there should be settings in the news list module for tags. The settings should be there even if you did not install tags_news. It's usually sufficient to have tags installed. tags_news adds some additional settings for the tag cloud to support related tags for news entries as well.

There should be also an additional template news_full_tags which already has the integration for tags and should work too.

Best,

Helmut

Sorry maybe my post wasn't clear. I was speaking about "Event" so calendar module and not with "News". With news everything work good.

Thank you.

Hi,
any update or suggestions for fix the problem of tags filter in event list (calendar module) ?

Thank You.

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Originally Posted by hschottm

Well, either I forgot to do this for the event list or it isn't possible. I'm not quite sure yet.
I will check if I can add support for a tag filter in event lists too.

Best,
Helmut

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Sounds good, I look forward to your next response. Also great work on the tags extension, it's a valuable addition to my website.

Hello,

I still have that problem with tags in event_list I post here the result code, seems that with tags event module don't store the tags in the db.

Code:

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[source] => default
    [jumpTo] => 0
    [articleId] => 0
    [url] =>
    [target] =>
    [cssClass] =>
    [noComments] =>
    [published] => 1
    [start] => 1281283500
    [stop] =>
    [tags] =>
    [calendar] => Eventi e Manifestazioni
    [time] => 16:05
    [date] => 2010-08-08
    [day] => Sunday
    [month] => August
    [parent] => 1
    [link] => dettagli-evento/events/evento-1-di-esempio.html

---

Any suggestion ?

Thank you.

Hi,
i am having the similar problem with event_list template.
Tags variable is empty even I have defined the tag in calendar event details page.
[start] => 1308700800
[stop] =>
[dlh_reserved] =>
[dlh_blocked] =>
[cep_location] =>
[cep_participants] =>
[cep_contact] =>
[tags] =>
[calendar] => Skolenia2011
[time] =>
[date] => 2011-06-22 - 2011-06-30
[day] =>

But what I am curious about if it is possible to use Insert tags in "Tag filter" field in Event List module. E.g. {{catalog::FieldName}}.

Same for me Helmut. I can see that the News is working with tags, as I've done a few implementations, but now I'm trying the EVENTS tags and it's coming up blank.

I believe that the addEvent() function must be to blame, because the arrAllEvents converts the Database query into an array of Events (by day), but I can't see any place where you actually add in the ['tags'] variable to the array. Since the tags isn't stored in the 'tags' field, but must be looked up in the tl_tags table using the reference table. I see that you have a function in the CalendarTags.php to insert the tags into the event-feed, but I can't see a similar function to add tags expansion to the events list.

Please can you let me know, otherwise, I have to switch to using classnames instead, or hack the modules you wrote.

thyon did you get any answer from the developer on this?
I'm trying to use this extension for the first time, and on a V3 version, and none of the tags columns seem to be fed for any element (news, event, article, etc.)