Events Calendar - Creating an event
James Leah
Front End Web Developer
Step 1 of adding an event to the events calendar on the website.
Creating the event in T4
Completing the Section Request form will add a section in T4 for you. Allowing you to then start populating with information about the event. The form creates the section in T4 within moments so has removed the wait time for having a section created for you by the Web Editor of your School/Service.
Fields to complete
AD Username
This is your active directory username which you use to logon to University systems, for example your computer. We use this information to log all submitted events to your username.
Section name
This will appear in the events calendar structure in T4, so using the name of the event would be appropriate so it is easy to find later on.
Which School/Service are you from
By selecting the school/service you work in the relevant workflow will be set on the section. To find out more about workflow see the SiteManager V8 Work flow post.
Which area is the section required
This drop down allows you to select which area of the site you would like to create a section, select Events Calendar. This will now activate two additional fields on the form.
* Year of the event
Select the year that the event is running from the dropdown list
** Month of the Event
Select the month that the event is running from the dropdown list
Output uri
This is required when more than a single word is used in the Section name field, we do this to ensure the urls of the site are all SEO friendly. An output uri should be all lowercase, hyphenated between words leaving no spaces at all.
Keywords
Keywords should be split by using commas, keywords should be relevant to the event.
Meta description
This should be a few sentences decribing the event again making sure that it is releveant to your event, where possible it helps SEO if you can include some important keywords in this description.
To find out further information about why the this is required please check out the post 'So you think you've finished...' which gives an insight into the purpose of metadata and other workflow issues that may crop up on creation of a new section.
Fields marked with (*) only appear if 'Events Calendar' is selected in the which areaa is the section required field.
Fields marked with (**) only appear if a year is selected in the 'Year of the event' field.
Events calendar - Documentation
Return to the Events Calendar documentation homepage, which contains links to all the supporting documentation.
Events calendar - part 2
See the seciond part of the events calendar guide, the post will detail how to add the event information to the section you have created.