Solspace Calendar: Showing future events - date_range_start parameter not working

Question

I want to show future events based on today.

I currently have 3 dummy events in my system, 1 past, 1 today, 1 future. When I run the code below no events show up:

{exp:calendar:events event_limit="3" status="open" date_range_start="today" orderby="event_start_date" sort="asc"}

If I take out the parameter:

date_range_start="today"

Then all appear.

I'm running the same query for past events using:

date_range_end="yesterday"

This is working fine.

Answer 1

The tag you're very likely looking for is {exp:calendar:cal}, not {exp:calendar:events}. This is almost always the tag to use when displaying upcoming/future events (or past events, or events within a specific timeframe) is the goal.

{exp:calendar:cal} is the only tag that creates a truly chronological list of events and respects the time/date window set in date_range_start="" and date_range_end="" (i.e. it looks for events/occurrences within the set timeframe).

(Note: add pad_short_weeks="n" as well to {exp:calendar:cal} to avoid it from adding extra days in your timeframe to complete a calendar "week row")

The following documentation page, which explains in more details why/when each of the main Calendar tags are used, is a strongly recommended read: http://www.solspace.com/docs/calendar/getting_started/

Answer 2

If you look at the events documentation. Notice how the date range end parameter. Defaults to today. You just need to specify a date range end for the events tag to be used this way.