Custom Fields, Subscribing and Embeddable Calendar

[Joelle]

Hello!

My client is very interested in purchasing your PRO calendar and Filter add-ons. However, we have some questions that are unclear in the literature and I want to make sure before we purchase.

Custom Fields
I’ve seen some references to this here and there, but it’s not clear: are you able to create a custom field in events using Events Calendar PRO? My client needs to have an empty field for an OFF-SITE purchase link. I understand that there is an “event website” link which we could use in a pinch, but we’d rather leave that free. My client runs her registration for her classes off-site on another e-commerce solution, so we need to be able to link to that entry and utilize that custom field however we need to (preferably by placing a “Register Now” button at the top of the event listing somehow.

Subscribing
My client has been using Time.ly calendar and they have an option to subscribe to a calendar, regardless of category. It appears that you can only export the full calendar or an individual post. It is my understanding that with Filter, could filter the content by category, THEN click “Export Listed Content”. Is that correct? It would be great if there were an “add to Google calendar” option with this so it’s less steps for the user.

Embeddable Calendar
The client would like to be able to embed her calendar widget on her off-site e-commerce website. Is this something offered somewhere with PRO? or another add-on?

Please let me know at your earliest opportunity, as my client is anxious to move forward with calendar selection.

Thank you so much!

[Brook]

Howdy Joelle,

I would love to help you with this.

I’ve seen some references to this here and there, but it’s not clear: are you able to create a custom field in events using Events Calendar PRO? My client needs to have an empty field for an OFF-SITE purchase link. I understand that there is an “event website” link which we could use in a pinch, but we’d rather leave that free. My client runs her registration for her classes off-site on another e-commerce solution, so we need to be able to link to that entry and utilize that custom field however we need to (preferably by placing a “Register Now” button at the top of the event listing somehow.

Yes with Events Calendar Pro  there are custom fields available. A tickets website link would work great with these.

My client has been using Time.ly calendar and they have an option to subscribe to a calendar, regardless of category. It appears that you can only export the full calendar or an individual post. It is my understanding that with Filter, could filter the content by category, THEN click “Export Listed Content”. Is that correct? It would be great if there were an “add to Google calendar” option with this so it’s less steps for the user.

There are a number of ways to export events in an iCal with the default calendar and no Filter Bar. The four most common are:

• Export a whole months worth
• Export all upcoming events, usually limitted to 20 but can be adjusted
• Export a category’s events
• Export an individual event

With the Filter Bar you can export event more granual sets of events, such as all within a tag, from multiple selected categories at one time (in addition to the above where you can export all categories). You can play around with this here. If you click Show Filters, you will see the extra options available for filtering. Once filtered click export to just get the listed events.

The client would like to be able to embed her calendar widget on her off-site e-commerce website. Is this something offered somewhere with PRO? or another add-on?

We do not have a great builtin solution for this yet. It is a need we are working to address in the coming months. Until then this is very possible with a customization. If you are versed with PHP themes than you could make one of our widgets, or event the entire calendar views, embeddable as an iframe without the surrounding website appearing.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

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