Event Calendar Pro Question

[Christine]

Good morning,

We are looking into purchasing the Event Pro Calendar so we can advertise our training events to our employees. We were wondering if the filters can be modified and adapted to our needs?

Perhaps you have a suggestion for what we want to do? Our event categories are: Mandatory Training and Recommended Training but we also want to make it obvious which training events are for employees and which are for managers only. How would you go about it with the Event Pro Calendar?

Thank you for you help!
Christine
Public Service Commission of Canada

[Geoff]

Hey Christine and thanks for reaching out! I’m stoked to hear that you’re looking into PRO and I really hope it’s a good fit for your project. 🙂

That’s a n excellent question. If I was tackling it myself, I would probably set up categories for each event type (Mandatory, Recommended, etc.) as you are already doing, then using the PRO feature of additional fields to specify who the event is for.

For example, you could create a custom field called “Audience” and use that to identify the group of people the event is intended for.

The Filter Bar add-on is great for filtering events by specific categories (and other variables) on the fly, so I’d recommend checking that out as well. The only bummer is that it does currently support creating filters for custom fields (yet!)–so, while visitors can filter the calendar by categories, tags, days, distance and a host of other variables, the additional fields data would be absent as a variable to filter events, though that information will still be displayed in the event itself.

Does this help answer your question? Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions here and I’d be happy to help.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Christine]

Thank for for your prompt response. I think the PRO feature of additonal fields will be convenient for us.

We appreciate your help and looking forward in using the PRO version.

Christine

[Geoff]

My pleasure and thanks again for reaching out! Feel free to hit us back up if any other questions pop up along the way as you make the move to PRO. 🙂

Geoff

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