Skemahapser, iCal and ASB campusnet

Skemahapser is a online application that allows students at ASB to download or subscribe to their campus calendar. It works with iCal so that you can subscribe or download your calendar to your own calendars.

• If you subscribe, you will be able to see changes as soon as the subscription auto-updates.
• If you you choose to download your calendar to your iCal, you will have to manually download every time changes have been made to the campus-calendar. 

To use the function click here and fill in the form with your details. If you want to subscribe to your CampusNet Calendar in iCal you have to follow these instructions:

• Open iCal
• Click “Calendar>Subscribe…”
• And type/copy the following line

“webcal://it.afdelingen.dk/skemahapser/iCal.aspx?username=AB12345&stud=true”

• Where it says AB12345 fill in your CampusNet logon-id instead.
• A new window opens and you have various options. I recommend the default settings except for the “auto-refresh”, which I have set to every day. I would set this setting depending on my schedule.

I have not tried the function on outlook, though it seems to me that the possibility is offered.

I hope you will find this possibility as useful as I do. If you have a mobile that you connect to your mac, it is possible to load the calendar on to your mobile device. For help see my post “iSync your Mobil“.

Tags: Aarhus School of Business, Calendar, CampusNet, iCal, Skemahapser, Student, Subscribe
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Update: New date format

It might seem that I have not been active for a while. However, I am currently working on a new design which I will implement into the website whenever I have the time. 

Today I have implemented a new date format, which uses a background picture I created in Photoshop. If you would like to have a similar date format on you website please read on.

You need to be able to edit:
- Main Index Template -> index.php
- StyleSheet -> style.css

and have a date picture that you want to use. This picture should be uploaded to the same folder as where you keep your other theme pictures. I would recommend the picture to be either png, jpg or gif. Of course that depends on your theme.

At first you will have to create the following style in your style.css

/* Begin Date Format */

.dateblock{ text-align: center; width: 65px; font-family: Arial; float: left; display: inline; margin: 10px 10px 0 0; background: url(images/your-date-picture.png) no-repeat }

.day { font-size: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; margin: 2px 0 0 0; }

.month { font-size: 10px; top: 0px; margin: 6px 0 0 0; }

.year { font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: 0px; margin: 7px 0 10px 0; }
}

/* End Date Format*/

Secondly you will have to edit your index.php. The line you need to locate looks like the following, in the default WordPress theme:

<small><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> <!– by <?php the_author() ?> –></small>

This line needs to be changed into the following, if it should look like mine

<small><div class=”dateblock”><div class=”month”><?php the_time(‘F’) ?></div><div class=”day”><?php the_time(‘jS’) ?></div><div class=”year”><?php the_time(‘Y’) ?></div></div> <div class=”author”>by <?php the_author() ?></div></small>

There are a lot of other ways to display the_time format. But this is my setting. To see other variations or create your own. Go to http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

To make the date fit the your-date picture you will have to mess around with the top and margin settings until you are satisfied.

Good luck.

Tags: CSS, Update, WordPress
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