FullCalendar vs APEX Default Calendar Plugins

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.