I was required to have a fluid layout where the width of the calendar region is 50% of the page, but there is a problem, the Saturday column appears squashed.
I have found 2 ways to fix this issue:
1. Give the width a static width rather than fluid, but in my case this doesn't meet the requirement.
2. Use a tiny bit of jQuery to set the width from fluid to static. You can run this on load, before printing, on page resize etc. For me I just needed to run this on page load.
Region Template Give the Calendar a Region a Static ID so we can select the region supporting the calendar (not the calendar).
The full calendar plugin developed by skillbuilders legend Dan Mcghan takes the jQuery Calendar developed by Adam Shaw to a near seamless integration into APEX.
The main benefit for me vs Oracle APEX default Calendars is the 'out of the box' spanning of events over multiple days.
For example, if I had a calendar entry with the following: Start Date: 1/3/2013 End Date: 7/3/2103
The APEX default Calendars / Plugins would only display 1 entry (the start or end date respectively).
This is where the Full Calendar shows its strength (Calendar entries spanning multiple days).
Its also exceptionally easy to integrate tooltips and custom colours.
I don't think it will be long before Oracle produce a Sample Calendar Plugin which satisfies this as they have already done this with the Gantt Chart in the Sample Calendar Application.
Time is of the essence and all that :)
The only negative is printing the full calendar... which I will discuss in my next blog.
