
How to add a calendar event
Depending on the space and the permissions, the user could be able to create a new calendar event.
In order to do so, the user must be on the Home page of the Space or its Calendar section. See the figure below:
Next step is the creation of the Calendar event. Either:
- Click on the date of the event in the calendar itself, or...
- Mouseover the "+ Create" button and choose "Create Calendar General Event"
The next screen is self-explanatory in almost all the fields. Please check the details of "Location
- Give the event a title
- Calendar Type: Choose the type of event. This is a nonobligatory field but the calendar will be populated with different colors that can aid the users to discriminate between event types
- Date: Enter date and time (beginning to end).
- Repeat: Provides several options
- Frequency: Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Year
- Allows the frequency based on the amount of time (based on the above values). For example every 2 days, 3 weeks, etc.
- Specific days of the week or the month
- On the first, second, etc. days of the week or of the month
- Stop repeating after a number of occurrences. Also, stop repeating after a specific date.
- Exclude certain dates
- Include specific dates
- Repeat: Provides several options
- Description: Provide a Description of the meeting
- Location: (optional field) The system recognizes the physical addresses that will be shown later on a map. In order to do so, follow these steps:
- Introduce first just the address alone. For example "Ölzeltgasse 3, 1030 Wien " or "Paris, France"
- Click on the separator of the Teaser and the body. See the image below for details. In Html format you can see the new element "<!--break-->"
- Now you can add other extra information after it: Floor, room, pictures or any other additional information
- Agenda and Minutes: Optional areas. Typically used for Calendar type Event.
The rest of the fields are common to all content types and are basically self-explanatory.