How to Shorten Weekdays in JCalPro Monthly View

How to Shorten Sunday to Sun in JCalPro Monthly View

One of our customers asked how to switch the weekdays' format in JCal Pro monthly view from Sunday to Sun.

This shorter format will improve the JCal Pro monthly calendar view for small and mobile devices. In this blog post, I'll show you how to achieve this with Joomla Language Override technique.

  • In your Joomla 5 control panel, go to System > Language Overrides:

the language overrides link

  • You will be taken to the Languages: Overrides administrative page. Click Select Language & Client and then click English (en-GB) - Site:

the site language and client

  • In the top left corner, click New:

the new button

  • You will be taken to the Create a New Override screen. Locate the Search box to the right, type in Sunday and press Enter on your keyboard:

the search text field

  • You will see Sunday displayed in the Search Results section. Click Sunday:

the search results

  • You will see right away that the Language Constant and Text fields got populated with SUNDAY and Sunday respectively:

the text box

  • Inside the Text box, replace Sunday with Sun.
  • Click Save & New:
  • Repeat the same steps for the rest of the weekdays. 
  • Now check your JCal Pro monthly calendar view. You will see the weekdays displayed in the shortened format, as you set them in Joomla Language Overrides screen:

the weekday name shortened


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