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Colin Sagan

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Can start date be earlier than 2006?
May 28, 2007, 10:25:12 pm
I am moving the registration of a conference that has been going on for about 10 years over to CiviEvent. I would love to be able to put the historical data in as well. Is there any way to change the dates that populate the drop down menu for the event start date in an intelligent way? Currently it is 2006.

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Re: Can start date be earlier than 2006?
May 29, 2007, 01:20:08 am

Colin:

There is nothing in the data model that prevents you from storing past data. however the web interface  probably does not allow you to create events in the past. to tweak the interface your best bet is to do the following:

1. read http://civicrm.org/architecture/ and understand the civicrm code and layout structure

2. find the relevant php and tpl files and make the change :)

we are happy to assist you with the above on IRC :)

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Re: Can start date be earlier than 2006?
May 29, 2007, 01:29:43 am

Hi Colin,

All you need to do for reconfiguring your start date to 10 years back is
go to line no 140 in CRM/Event/Form/ManageEvent/EventInfo.php
and replace
       CRM_Core_SelectValues::date('datetime'),
by
        CRM_Core_SelectValues::date('custom', 10, 3,'MdY,h:iA'),

Hope this helps.

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Colin Sagan

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Re: Can start date be earlier than 2006?
May 29, 2007, 02:09:41 pm
Lobo and Yashodha,
Thanks for the tips, it works perfectly.

Big thanks for help with the specific code!

Colin

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Re: Can start date be earlier than 2006?
April 17, 2009, 04:54:11 am
I realize this thread is quite old and the code presented was for an older version of CiviCRM.

It, however, doesn't work for CiviCRM 2.1. I tried it on line 175 of CRM/Event/Form/ManageEvent/EventInfo.php but the date fields now don't appear on the web page.

Can someone provide the correct syntax for 2.1?

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Re: Can start date be earlier than 2006?
April 17, 2009, 05:46:11 am
hi

Code: [Select]
        $StartOffset = 20;
        $endOffset = 10;
        $dateParts = implode( CRM_Core_DAO::VALUE_SEPARATOR, array( 'Y', 'M', 'd', 'h', 'i', 'A' ) );
        $this->add( 'date', 'start_date',
                    ts('Start Date'),
                    CRM_Core_SelectValues::date('custom', $StartOffset, $endOffset, $dateParts ) );
hope this syntax help you

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Re: Can start date be earlier than 2006?
April 17, 2009, 06:12:06 am
Perfect. Thank you very much.
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