Click anywhere on this Calendar -- "it's alive!" (events shown through Sept 1, 2011, only)
This dynamic calendar shows about 450 events,
all auto-generated, via Google App Script!
Move the calendar to Friday June 17, 2011 -- to 2 weeks of film show-times!
(Where to click , to see the two weeks of showtimes.)
(And, see far below, too -- for the details, on how I built this calendar)
Success! -- a "live", and beautifully visual "easy-to-see" view of complex information!!
This is my test calendar, to automatically generate
a large number of multi-colored "events series"
(from a prepared file of structured data).
This data involves about 12 combined calendars,
showing about 150 showtimes, per week
-- for about 10 unique films.
All was accomplished completely with Google tools, solely -- namely:
this Google Site (within this Google App),
a Google Spreadsheet,
12 Google Calendars,
server-side Javascript (via Google App Script).
The Google Apps Script reads data in a Google Spreadsheet,
then creates "event series" across 12 separate Google Calendars.
Those 12 Google Calendars were then all combined,
and embedded within this Google Site, (which you are now viewing)
-- for this easy visual overview -- showing what happens when!
Lots of learning needed, to make this work, but good fun
-- delving all these free and powerful data-juggling tools, from Google!
(My joy these days, is striving to chase the accelerating progress of Google
-- as they provide amazing magic for computer programmers, to do so much, so easily)