How to Create Calendar with Events on Drupal 7

Having calendar and events on website is important if you want to show users your schedule using your website. For example if you are an artist or political that has many schedule and you want user know your schedule. Creating calendar with agenda using drupal site doesn’t difficult. You can user view, calendar, date, and some additional modules

Below I show you how to create calendar with agenda on drupal based site. You can show the calendar in block or even page. This tutorial based on drupal 7

Modules

You need to install these modules:

Chaos Tools
Calendar
Views
Date API which package with Date modules

Additional Modules that you can add to customize your calendar. You may not to install these modules

Calendar Tooltips: Generates a balloon with events when you hover over a day on a calendar block
Beautiful Tooltips API: required by Calendar Tooltips

Install and active all these modules above. If you are confuse on about Date modules you can active all of them or only active necessary part which are: Date, Date API, Date Popup, Date Tools, Date Views

Setup Calendar

Create Calendar Content Type

Go to Structure > Content Types > Add New Content Type
Add the name (for example: Events) and click Save and Add Fields button
On Manage Fields tab -> Add New Field
This is the important thing: Type name and choose Field Type: Date and Widget: Pop-up calendar
You can add any additional fields as you like
Click Save button after finish
Manage Field date setting on the next screen
Click Save Field Settings button

Try to submit event using the Events content type from Content > Add Content > Events

Note: You can also edit your existing content types and add new field for date field type

Create Calendar View

Go to Structure > Views > Add Views from Templates
Choose by clicking Add on A calendar view of the 'field_date' field in the 'node' base table.. Field_date is the field machine name that you've created above. If you fill the field with event and the machine name is field_event then you will find on views template: A calendar view of the 'field_event' field in the 'node' base table.
Type view name's
You can edit your view on the next page. If you are confuse then you just need to click Save button

Show on Website

You can show the calendar on sidebar or any block that is supported by your drupal theme

Go to Structure > Block
Find block with title View: Your Calendar Block Name. For example View: Calendar
Add the block in any region that you like
Click Save Blocks button