Community Events questions

[Shawn Waggott]

I have 2 questions about community events.

1. Is it possible to change the fields that a user sees when submitting an event?

2. When a user is submitting an event does it prevent them from submitting the booking if there is a meeting over lapping or at least notify them?

Shawn

[Caroline]

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for getting in touch! I’d be happy to assist you with your questions here! 🙂

1. While all fields are displayed by default on the event submission form, only an event title and description are required to submit, so any unneeded fields can simply be hidden via CSS or template modifications. Our Themer’s Guide is a great starting place to refer to if you’re interested in delving into this type of customization!
2. The Events Calendar makes no assumptions about “overlapping” events, so these aren’t prevented or warned about in any way. If you’d like to ensure that overlapping events aren’t submitted and published to the calendar without review, you can configure your Community Events settings to have all user-submitted events set to “draft” status by default. This will allow for an administrator to review events and check for issues before publishing them to the site calendar.

I hope that helps to address your concerns! Thanks again, and let us know if you should have any other questions!

[Shawn Waggott]

Great, thanks. One last question, when someone submits a community event, is there any way to customize the email that gets sent to the user?

Shawn

[Caroline]

Hi Shawn,

If you’re looking to modify the content of emails that are sent when a new event is submitted, I’d suggest taking a look at our Themer’s Guide! You’ll find information there on our templating system and how to duplicate and modify templates to customize the look & feel of our plugins. The template listed at community/email-template.php should be the right fit for what you’re looking to do here. Give it a look over and let us know if you should have any questions–while support staff aren’t able to write code for you in these cases, we can certainly provide guidance and suggestions wherever possible to get you on the right track! 🙂

I hope that’s enough information to get you started here! Let me know if you should have any other questions, and thanks again for stopping by!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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