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I too am trying to get this to work and can't get anywhere. I did not apply any patches because i have:

Drupal 6.13
Civi 2.2.7
Date & Calendar 6.x-2.x-dev from June 20 2009 and KarenS apparently put the patch into the June 8 dev version according to http://drupal.org/node/453688?mode=2&sort=2

I create a view for CiviEvents where default display has title, start date, end date of events:
i see my events perfectly in list form

Add page view, change it to calendar and add argument of CiviEvent Start Date -- leave all defaults when adding the argument (am I supposed to change anything?)

Then I get no results and 2 errors:

    * The calendar_style style requires a Date argument.
    * The date argument date fields must be added to this query. You can exclude them if you do not want them displayed in the calendar.

OK, I'm confused: I have a date argument and it's CiviEvent Start Date, and that is also a field....what am I doing wrong?

I have read all the topics I can on this system, and most of them seem to point to using Feed API way of doing this, but in that too I am having issues. So I wanted to try and get it working this way. Suggestions appreciated!!!

to clarify:

- should this in fact work WITHOUT setting up FeedAPI integration?

If I use feedapi integration, then the event start date in my node type that is getting populated by feedapi mapper does work as a calendar argument. all is well.

but if i just try to use views to build a civicrm_event view, then using  CiviCRM Events: Start Date  does not work as an argument...is this because it's in form of CCYYMMDD? Seems like calendar wants it in YYYY-MM format...

Clarify the above with me and then if this should still be possible without feed api, can you also verify that you are using:
CiviCRM Event Start Date
as both the field and the argument -- and for the field should I be using a custom date format?

if it still sounds like I'm doing it all right, i will export my view...thanks so much!

jalama,

got it! sorry about the confusion -- there are so many threads on this that it has been extremely confusing to figure out. i missed that it was an included default view, so i was trying to build from scratch and yes, was not setting the date arg correctly. after your last comment this became very clear to me. so:

- the default view is awesome and i love it; i wish i had realized that was there because i spent about 3 hours trying to do this with feed api and this is SO easy....thank you
- if i build one from scratch using just date as the arg it also works fine

thanks again!

also, i have vowed to do step-by-step instructions on civi wiki about this. i will likely do it today, and my instructions will include BOTH ways of setting this up (just using the view and using feedapi). but after seeing your view, i don't know why anyone would even want to take the trouble to set up feedapi

Documentation started: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Using+Drupal+Calendar+with+CiviEvent

Sorry about the noise, but just realised that there is a Date: Date (civicrm_activity) field that you can add as an argument right down the bottom of the argument list which works just fine.