Some questions before purchase

[Joe]

I am thinking of purchasing both the pro version and Community Events add-on for an Intranet I am designing for the agency I work for. We have a need for a good calendar application that is versatile.

With the Community Events add-on, would a user have the ability to add a recurring event through the front end?

Also with Community Events, does a user have the ability to add a predefined category to the event?

Can Venues & Organizers be disabled or hidden if unneeded or unwanted?

For the Day view, through CSS, can this be modified to look more like an agenda? I am guessing yes to this but figured I would ask.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Joe

[Joe]

One more question, Can a user using the Community Events also delete an event?

[George]

Hi Joe! Thanks for reaching out. I’ll address each of your questions in turn as follows.

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With the Community Events add-on, would a user have the ability to add a recurring event through the front end?

YES — If Events Calendar Pro is activated on your site alongside Community Events, then folks can create recurring events.

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Also with Community Events, does a user have the ability to add a predefined category to the event?

YES — Folks can choose from existing or add new ones. If you only want them to be able to choose from existing ones, then there is an option in the Community Events settings you can use so that they will be restricted from creating new ones of their own.

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Can Venues & Organizers be disabled or hidden if unneeded or unwanted?

SORT OF — You or other administrator-level users on your site can delete Venues and Organizers from your site. There is no method other than this, but this method does exist and would hide unneeded/unwanted Venues or Organizers. (Those same administrator-level users could also just set those unneeded/unwanted Venues or Organizers to “Draft” status so that they still exist in the wp-admin, but not on the front-end).

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For the Day view, through CSS, can this be modified to look more like an agenda? I am guessing yes to this but figured I would ask.

SURE — This would indeed be technically possible. To be clear, though, even for folks with premium licenses for our products we cannot help with any modifications to the appearance or functionality of our plugins. This is elaborated upon here, please read this for more information: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/what-support-is-provided-for-license-holders/

But yes, you could do this and any number of other CSS customizations on your site.

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One more question, Can a user using the Community Events also delete an event?

YES, but only if you specify in your Community Events options panel that folks have to be logged-in to submit events. In other words: If you allow anonymous submissions, and somebody submits an event on your site without logging first, then they will not be able to edit or delete their submitted events. But if the person is logged in first, and submit events while logged in (which you can require to be the case with a simple checkbox option in the Community Events settings panel), then they will be able to view, edit, and delete the events they submit.

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I hope this all helps!

— George

[Joe]

Thanks for the quick response. Can you expand a little on the deleting of events. Specifically the part where you state that logged in users would be able to delete their events. If they are logged in could they delete any event on the calendar or just the ones they have created?

Thanks,
Joe

[George]

Sure thing Joe!

If they are logged in could they delete any event on the calendar or just the ones they have created?

☝️ They would only be able to delete their own events that they created.

Now, if they are “administrator”-level users, they will be able to do anything on the site that you could: add plugins, change site settings, delete any event from any other, create pages and new users and on and on…but if they’re just “Subscriber” or “Author”-level users, which is the default and also what is recommend, then they would only be able to delete their own events that they created.

I hope this helps!
George

[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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