Event trickle-down from parent site to subsites in multisite environment

[Qamar Ali]

Hi,

We are working on a multisite website for a college. Each academic department (and some non-academic departments as well as non-deparment features) will have its own subsite. The college wants us to build the events in such a way that all events are stored in the main site and then on subsites, they can be filtered based on categories. The reason for this is that they want a central governance workflow on the publishing of events to the public. So for example, if we have a Physics and a Biology department, all events will be created in the parent site; even when initiated from the Physics or Biology site. However, the Physics department events will have “Departments/Physics” category and the Biology department events will have “Departments/Biology” category. When the calendar is viewed on the main site, all events are shown but when viewed on the Physics or Biology sites only the events with relevant category are shown. Is this available in Events Calendar out of the box with some extensions?

We’ve seen that we can have our own template for the display of a single event; is it possible to hook the full calendar display to add a filter which the site visitor cannot change in the ad-hoc filtering?

Thanks and all the best

[Jaime Marchwinski]

Hi Qamar,

Thanks so much for reaching out and for your interest in our products!

With Events Calendar PRO, you can create one main calendar with all of your events, and embed category calendars onto your subsets using shortcodes:

• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-widget-shortcodes/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/embedding-calendar-views-tribe_events-shortcode/

Our plugins are highly customizable and you can copy and edit templates and views to suit your needs.  Here is our Themer’s Guide to get your started:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Also, here is more information on how licenses for multisite work:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/multisite-license/

I hope this helps!  Please let me know if you have any other questions on this topic!

 

Thanks,

Jaime

[Qamar Ali]

Thank you very much Jaime. Is there a way that we can get a temporary license for the pro and multisite to evaluate all this? Just a two-week license should be enough for us. What we really need is a way to have all events in the parent site and have them visible on the child site – in the calendar view as well as sidebar widgets and embedded within pages on subsites.

Thanks and all the best,
Qamar Ali

[Jaime Marchwinski]

Hi Qamar Ali,

We have an awesome refund policy, where we will give you a full refund within 30 days of purchase if you are unhappy with our products.  This will give you an opportunity to test things out and have access to our premium support during that time, should you have any questions.

I hope this helps, let me know if anything else comes up!

 

Thanks,

Jaime

[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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