Creating two types of events that won't mix

[ADI]

Hi,
I have a website in which I want to use your plugin in two ways:
1. Internal events- lectures and meetings that we produce and are relevant for members of our organization, for which we have tickets that are purchased from our website, including seat reservations etc.
2. External events- events produced by other companies which we will only publish- no tickets, rsvps, anything. All we need is a nice calendar view and a page with a filterable view of the events- by date, category or venue. We would like to use your plugin for those events too, but at the moment we are unable to find a way to separate the two types of events in a way that new external events won’t show up in the events page, and to have a page that is like the regular events page but will only show for external events, and vice versa for internal.
Does it sound possible?

[Jennifer]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out! If I understand how you have things set up, it sounds like you should be able to use categories and shortcodes to display the events separately…the [tribe_events] shortcode currently only supports one category argument. However, one thing you could do is to add the categories for internal events under one parent category and the categories for external events under another parent category. Then, you can add the parent category as the “category” argument in the shortcode, and all of the events with categories under that parent will be displayed. You can also set which view you would like the shortcode to display, so if you wanted to have different views for each calendar, you could do so.

I would also recommend taking a look at this article, which has some additional tips on making a “members-only” calendar, which might be helpful.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if I’ve misunderstood what you’re looking for!

[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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