Event Calendar - Extension - Use Public Theme not Civi Admin Theme

[509tyler]

Wow, the new Event Calendar Extension looks very good. See: http://civicrm.org/extensions/event-calendar-extension

I realize this is an "alpha" release, but one issue that has arisen already is that we have in our implementation of CiviCRM are two different themes - one for admin one for public. Presently the extension is defaulting to the CiviCRM admin theme and not the Public theme, but the calendar should use the public theme. I am wondering if there is a work around for this where one could assign the preferred theme in the Calendar settings screen, or a suggestion of how to hack the plugin code to use the Public Theme.

Does anyone know how to reach the plugin author Rohan?

Thanks for this great contrib!

[509tyler]

I posted this issue on Git.

https://github.com/osseed/com.osseed.eventcalendar/issues?state=open

[509tyler]

In case anyone is having the same issue I described above, I was able to correct the Admin theme issue by using the Theme Key Drupal module.
https://drupal.org/project/themekey

I then used the Theme Key rules to override the Admin theme for authenticated users based on the path of the events calendar. I also used Path Auto (pretty standard faire on most Drupal sites: https://drupal.org/project/pathauto) to change the URL of the event calendar to remove the /civicrm from the URL.

Works great!

[bcobin]

You are a beautiful person - thank you for the direction and for the excellent documentation! (I would have missed that the theme key_compat module needs to be enabled otherwise.)

That the module defaults to the administration theme is most unfortunate; in the meantime, thank you for the workaround!

[osarusan]

Thanks so much for posting this! I have run into the same exact problem as you, and I even tried to post on Github about it as well.

I'm trying to get it to work the way you have described in your post with ThemeKey, but I am having difficulty. Even though I have set the theme to change based on the drupal path, the theme does not change.

I've gotten the theme to change on other pages using different rules, but for some reason whenever I enter the path for the events calendar, it doesn't have any effect at all. Any ideas?