Calendar
A calendarA published programme for an event: sessions and other items laid out across dates and times for attendees to browse on your site. An event can have several calendars, for example a main session schedule alongside a guide to event spaces, and each has its own web address. A calendar is only shown to attendees once you make it visible. is a published programme for an eventA single ticketed offering that people register for: one camp, one party, one conference, or one run of a show. Your site usually runs many events, and each is normally used once and then archived rather than reused (an annual festival creates a new event each year). Each event has its own page on your site, for example example.com/summercamp. When your site has only one active event, EventDrake automatically presents it as the site's main page and keeps the multi-event navigation out of the way.. You lay out sessions across dates and times, and attendees browse them on your site, favourite the ones they want, and build a personal agendaAn attendee's own list of calendar entries, reached from My Agenda on your site. Entries arrive there when the attendee favourites them, and when a roster shift is published for them. Reminders are sent for favourited entries only..
An event can have more than one calendar. A convention might publish a main session schedule plus a separate guide to its event spaces, each with its own web address and its own layout.
How it fits together
Section titled “How it fits together”- A calendar sets the dates it covers, how it is laid out, and the lanesA named, colour-coded grouping inside a calendar, such as a stage, room, or track. Lanes colour the entries assigned to them in every display mode, and become the columns in the lanes grid. Lanes are set up on the calendar itself, so each calendar has its own set. (stages, rooms, or tracks) that group and colour what sits on it.
- An entryOne item on a calendar, such as a panel, workshop, or performance. It has a name, description, artwork, and a start and end time, and can be assigned to a lane. The same entry can be attached to more than one calendar, so a headline session can appear on both a main schedule and a room guide without being entered twice. is one item on that calendar: a panel, a workshop, a performance. It has a name, description, artwork, and a start and end time.
- Attendees favourite entries to add them to My Agenda, and get a reminder before a favourited entry starts.
Turning it on
Section titled “Turning it on”Calendar is off by default. Once it is enabled for your site, a Calendar section appears in the admin sidebar for each event.
Building a schedule needs the admin or scheduling role. The scheduling role is worth knowing about: it lets someone build and run the whole programme without giving them access to the rest of your admin.
What’s here
Section titled “What’s here”- Calendars: create a calendar, choose its layout, and set up lanes.
- Entries: add sessions, place them on the grid, and link them to what people book.
- What attendees see: the public schedule, favouriting, My Agenda, and reminders.
- Settings: the reminder lead time.