Adding Events

Plone web sites have a built-in system for managing and showing calendar events.

Use the Add new… menu for a folder to add an event:

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Select Event from the drop-down menu, and you’ll see the rather large Add Event panel:

Adding events form

From the top, we have the following fields:

  • Title - REQUIRED

  • Summary

  • Event starts - REQUIRED

  • Event ends - REQUIRED

  • Whole Day

  • Open End

  • Recurrence

  • Event Location

  • Attendees

  • Contact Name

  • Contact Email

  • Contact Phone

  • Event URL

  • Event body text (visual editor panel)

  • Change note

Note

Only three fields, title and start and end date and time, are required.

Although this is a large input panel, if you are in a hurry, type in the title and the start and end times and save. Of course, if you have the other information, you should type it in.

One part of the panel needs a bit more explanation: the event start and end times. Both these can be set using a handy pop-up calendar. This will show when you click on the date.

Setting an event to be “Whole day” will remove the start and end times.

But there are many more options: you can set an event to be “Open-ended” if you don’t know when the end date is, or if it is an ongoing activity that you would still like to show as an event.

For repeating events, use the “recurrence” link. You can set when, and how often, your event will repeat: daily, weekly, every third Tuesday of the month until 2017, etcetera. You can specify that an event should repeat a certain number of times, or until a certain date.

Note

IMPORTANT: Your event will not show on the main web site calendar until it has been published.