The Events features work similar to the Newsfeed tool, with an Events page type and an Events Feed to display your events.

Events pages display an image, venue information, a map of the location and a prominent call to action button that can be used to link to third party event management services.

The Events Feed tool allows you to display an attractive feed of events, with options to filter events by selected projects, project status or event type.

Adding an event page is much the same as creating a project sub-page or news page. When you create an event, you will be asked for a title, description, location, image, event type, start and finish date/time, venue, address, and call to action link and text.

The Events tool is integrated into the ‘Follow’ functionality for customers who have access to these features, allowing you to automatically send a notification of the new event to your project followers.


💡USER TIP: Both the Project and Events Page need to be published in order to be viewed on the Events Feed.

🖼️ Examples

Here's some examples of how you can configure the Events tool:

List display type

Card display type

⚙️Settings

Settings you can configure in the Events tool:

Activity

  • Project Filter - Allows you to filter the Events Feed results by a specific project. If enabled, you will be presented with a drop-down list with all the projects from your site.
  • Project Status Filter - Allows you to filter the Events Feed results by a project status. If enabled, you will be presented with a drop-down list with Open, Active and Closed.
  • Project Type Filter - Allows you to filter the Events Feed results by project type. If enabled, you will be presented with a drop-down list with Public and Private.
  • Date Range - Allows you to filter the Events Feed by a specific date range.

Display

  • Show thumbnails - Allows you to choose whether or not to display thumbnails for events in the feed.
  • Display Type - Allows you to choose between card and list templates for events in the feed.
  • Progressive Loading - Allows you to choose whether to display all events or a specific number before a 'show more' button is displayed to progressively load more events.
  • Sorting - Allows you to choose between sorting events chronologically by date-order, or reverse date-order.

Advanced

  • Block Title - add a heading to display at the top of the tool.
  • Block Description - add a sub-heading or descriptive text to display beneath the heading.

🎯 Key Actions

Key actions you can perform in the Events tool:

  • Click the Pages tab at the top right of the toolbar.
  • Select the Events Page.
  • This will launch the events page composer and create a draft event page.
  • In the composer, set the title, description, location, thumbnail image (Event Image - must be minimum 400x300 pixels to display in feed), Event Type, start and end date and time, venue, address and optional call to action link and link text. The title, start date, thumbnail image and description will appear.
  • Select Automated Email Notification field to automatically send an email notification to project followers when the news page is published (if follow function is enabled on your site).
  • Followers will receive an email notifying them when the news item is published, with the text from the Description field appearing in the email.
  • When finished, click the green 'Submit' button in the lower right hand corner.
  • You can now add draft content to the page, including text, images and other tools.
  • When complete, publish the page as any other.
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