Events - Carleton CMS Help Centre

An event post is useful for listing upcoming events. Here are examples of an event post and an event listing.

Step by Steps

Add an Event

Add a new Event using the side or top menu.
Enter a title for your event.
Enter a blurb about the event in the text editor field
Scroll down to the Event Content field:
1. In the When and Where tab, add the date, start time and end time. If it is a multi-day event, enter the end date. Add the location of your event.
2. In the Details tab you can include the cost of the event, intended audience, and the contact information of the main contact for the event
Categorize your event post.
Save, schedule, or publish the event.

Pull an event listing onto a page

Add/Edit the page on which you would like to put an events listing.
Click Insert Post Element.
Click the List Events icon.
Choose the category or categories of event you would like to list, or leave all the boxed unchecked to list all people.
Click Insert Element.
Update the page.

Video Tutorial

Transcript

Module 2: Events

Hello, and welcome back to Module 2 of the Basic CMS Training. In this video we will talk about event posts.

Here is an example of an event post. Event posts are usually used to announce upcoming events, and usually contain event date, time and location, as well as other related information.

Upcoming events can be listed on a page like an event calendar, such as what you are seeing on the screen right now.

Now, let’s create an event post. In the title field, you can enter the name of your event. You can enter a blurb about the event in this text box.

Below that, there is an “Event Content” field for you to insert details about the event. The “When and Where” tab allows you to provide event date, time and location, while the “Details” tab allows you to indicate the cost of the event, intended audience, contact information, and more.

Once you are done filling out the information, add your event to a category, and don’t forget to click “publish” or “save”.

To pull your event listing onto a page, go to your page and click “Add Post Element”. Then click “List Events”. You can then select which category of event you want to display, and limit how many items you want to list. Once you’re done, click “Insert Element”.

Try It Out!

Now that you have learned how to add an Event post, time to try it out!

Add a new event and fill out the event details.
Add your event to a “test” category and save your event.
Add the event you just created to your test page.
Save your test page.

Next: Module 3

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