Is there plans to allow more than 6 months of events to be displayed on a list view? My website visitors tend to miss future events because Endis requires that they go to Monthly View to see more than 6 months (I book a year in advance)

You can display up to a years worth of events in the "Calendar component", is that what you're referring to?

Hi Justin,

With the 'tags' option on events, I'm wondering if it is possible to insert the 'event component' into an article with it linked to specific 'tags' instead of linked to a specific group? For example, I have 1 event that I'd like to keep under a specific region 'group', however I'd also like it to come up under a specific person's article to note that event is one they are speaking at. This example actually affects about half of our calendar events!

Thanks.

It's not possible currently to filter events by their tags, although it's still worth tagging them as the advanced site search can search tags.

Filtering the calendar events by tags would be a great addition though. You could post it under feature requests to gain maximum momentum.

Do you have any other suggestions for enabling 1 event to be listed under 2 headings??

I will definitely make it a request - thank you!

The only way would be to place the event in it's own group so you can display it in several different places without displaying other events.

Hi Justin,

There seems to be a function missing from the Calendar. I can’t find anything that will allow reminders to be set. The only reminders I can find are in Rotas. This seems to be a shortfall because we would like to set a Calendar event (for example a PCC meeting or a prayer meeting) and set a reminder for a group of users so they get a reminder email similar to Rotas giving them a reminder about the meeting. What would be useful is to be able to set a calendar event for a group and then set a reminder for all users linked to that group as well as being able to link that reminder to other users not part of the group if necessary. Or to simply set a calendar event and choose which users should have the reminder. Most other calendars I come across (Microsoft Outlook, Google, Hotmail, etc) allow reminders to be set.  Is this something that is planned for inclusion in your product or are there reasons why this is not possible. It seems to me a fundamental omission.

Events don't currently have reminders. Please post this in the feature request forum to gain maximum momentum for this feature.

Currently you could add reminders for an event through these methods:

1.Create a rota and add the events you want reminders for to the rota. You can add a whole group to a rota so everyone whose a member of that group at the time the reminders are sent will be emailed.

2.You can add an ical feed of the calendar to external calendars like Google calendar or Outlook. You can then ask to receive reminders for those events within those external applications (Google calendar even allows you to Set up your mobile phone to receive free SMS notifications). The downside of this method is the user needs to go through the steps to get reminders themselves. Instructions on adding the calendar ical feed to Google calendar here: http://help.shareinsight.info/entries/355068-export-your-web-site-events-using-ical

I realise that for events to show on the front of the website they need to have been entered under the top category ('What we're up to'). Is there a way of changing the visibity of events entered under a group to 'visible to all visitors' please? If not, I could re-enter events and delete the 'grey' ones, but the problem I have is that we have events entered under a group ('Sunday Celebrations') with rotas attached - and it tells me the rotas will be lost if I delete the events! Help, please. At present our Sunday evening services are not showing on the calendar on the front of the website, as they were entered under a group instead of the top category!

with thanks, Sarah

Sarah, if your homepage layout is set to display all events from your site then it'll display your Sunday Celebrations. It sounds like it's incorrectly configured to show events from the current group.

If you need any further help please let us know.

I can make everything show by moving events into the top category, but it would be better to configure it correctly. How do I do that? ie make all events 'visible to all' - that option is not available in groups other than the top one so that's what needs to change.

with thanks, Sarah

If you can't set an event to be 'visible to everyone' it'll be because the group itself isn't visible to everyone. If you're not sure how to change/check the group security setting then follow the instructions on 'renaming a folder' but instead of renaming it check the 'security' setting of the group.

If you still need help then please raise a support ticket.

We have just started using the calandar facility on the website and are a bit confused.

Do we need to create an event on the calandar so that anyone who looks at our website see's the event but also in the background create a resource (book the room) so that no room conflict is created?

Also when one of our Youth Team created an recurring event it was set to pending in resources, now we are able to confirm the event can go ahead, is there any way of confirming the whole series rather than individually confirming?

thanks,

Gail

Is it possible to make the Upcoming Events list run for more than 7 days? My problem is that, whilst the home page lists all groups events and therefore has several showing, some groups may only have a monthly event and therefore the box is empty.

Thanks

Tess