Create and Update Events in Calendar view within FileMaker

In this post, we will talk about how to create and update events in the Calendar view within FileMaker using Webviewer Control and JSON. This will compatible with FileMaker version 16 and above.

Overview:

In some cases, we are in need to create events within our FileMaker application and need to do it in a calendar view. It can be achieved by displaying HTML Calendar inside a Webviewer control and integrate it with FileMaker tables using JSON and FMP URLs.

Following are steps to manage events in a Calendar view within

Create Calendar in FileMaker using Webviewer control:

Step 1:

• Display HTML Calendar in a Webviewer control using the code provided by fullcalendar.io (an open-source web calendar). You need to do this process by integrating the calendar code including HTML, Javascript, and CSS with the FileMaker Webviewer control.
• Remember to turn on FMP URL permissions for the Accounts in Database Manager – Security section.
• After entering the HTML code from the open-source code website( https://fullcalendar.io/ ) in the Web viewer, the Calendar will be shown as like below

Step 2:

• After the Integration process is complete, In order to create an event in the Calendar we need to mention the Date, Time, Color, Title, Notes, Guests for the event in the FileMaker database as given below.

Step 3:

• After the Event information is entered, We need to run the script to create the event. In the script step, we need to mention those Date, Time, Color, Title, Notes, Guests field in the JSON function in a field to create an event.

• Initially need to generate Json to create calendar events. After that using those fields will pass the Event information values to the calendar to create an event.         
• In Data1 field we are getting the List of Event Information created in the Calendar in JSON format.
• In Data2 field we are getting the Appointment created Date & Time Information as Follow.

Step 4:

• After creating the event, we can view the event in the Calendar as follows. If we need to update the event then we can modify the Date, Time, Color, Title, Notes, and Guests, update the event using the Event id.

The team at FMDBSolutions hopes this article explained you a workaround to Create and Update Events in Calendar view within FileMaker. FMDBSolutions is a team of well-qualified experts that have a lot of experience with the many versions of FileMaker Pro and the FileMaker Go app too.

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