Upcoming event calendar

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I wanted a nice visual representation of upcoming multi-day events. I created this Dataview script to turn a simple list of events into a visual calendar representation:

The current day is highlighted (August 17th in this case), and if the event title is a link to a note the link will appear in the calendar (see the Holiday in Bali event).

Step 1:

Make a list of events in this format:

• 2022-09-05 to 2022-09-16 | Conference in Houston
• 2022-10-04 to 2022-10-11 | Holiday in Bali | (this one is a link to a page)
• 2022-10-20 to 2022-10-23 | Weekend in Vermont
• 2022-11-14 to 2022-11-20 | Obsidian conference

(Instead of a list, the script can also find your events based on frontmatter fields - details below.)

Step 2:

Download the Dataview script and save it wherever you store your script files: https://gist.github.com/alangrainger/bd93671d5d6f249bc5c9fd96e4a30fa1

Step 3:

Add this Dataview snippet to the page, changing the location to your location from step 2:

```dataviewjs
dv.view('Scripts/Dataview/trip-calendar')
```

Alternatively you can provide YAML start-date and end-date fields as a configuration option, and the script will find all notes with those fields, and use the dates for the calendar:

```dataviewjs
dv.view('Scripts/Dataview/trip-calendar', {
	yamlStartField: 'date_begin',
	yamlEndField: 'date_end'
})
```

Your frontmatter would look like this using the field names above. You can add the date in any format that MomentJS will recognise, but safest to use ISO dates.

---
date_begin: 2022-10-01
date_end: 2022-10-07
---