[TYPO3-calendar] What is startPointCorrection and endPointCorrection and what's a valid use-case for them?

[Mario Matzulla]

Hi Simon,

Am 06.03.13 13:31, schrieb Simon Schick:
> On 05.03.13 21:40, Mario Matzulla wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> Am 05.03.13 15:03, schrieb Simon Schick:
>>> Hi, all
>>>
>>> I had a quite long time debugging why none of my events were showing up.
>>> Some of the events had no calendar that was related ... and events
>>> without
>>> calendar aren't visible at all ..
>>>
>>> Another reason was, that there was a value at the startPointCorrection
>>> and
>>> endPointCorrection ...
>>> What are these two values for and in what unit is the number I write?
>>> Can you please show me a use-case for that?
>>
>> Imagine a month view containing 2 small month views next to it (prev and
>> next month). In such a case only the actual (current/main) month would
>> get filled with event, because the query would contain the first day of
>> the month as start and last day as end of the period to search for
>> events.
>> In such a case you want to extend the search period by one month in each
>> direction (to get the events of the prev and next month). That's where
>> the start- and endPointCorrection is needed. The value is in seconds.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mario
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>
> Hi, Mario
>
> That makes sense, but I would have solved it in a different way ... But
> this would be something to do when implementing FLUID ...
>
> Then you would request the additional date-range in the template and
> don't care about the 2 extra requests made to the database, wouldn't you?

Might be ;)

Regards,
Mario
>
> Bye
> Simon