Events
The Events page lets you maintain calendar postings in all the familiar one-off and recurring types.
PREREQUISITES: You must set the day of the week you want your calendar to start the week. To do this, click Administration » Settings » Advanced » Events and specify the First day of the week and the Last day of the week and click Save changes.
NOTE: You create and edit Events in the classic interface. For more information, see Reference: New content editing experience and the classic interface.
The following table summarizes the main properties and actions for Events.
| Property/Action |
Description |
| Widgets to use and configure |
Events widget |
| Display on pages |
Display content on your website |
| Organization |
You can organize your events in calendars that you can color-code the calendars, and then display on the website in Month, Week, or Day view. For more information, see Manage event calendars. |
| Comments |
On Events page, you can view all the comments for events by clicking Comments for events link on the right side of the page.
All comments that have been submitted for all the events are displayed.
For more information about comments, see Overview: Comments module. |
| Custom fields |
You can add custom fields to events, or choose from predefined default fields (such as contact phone #, and UTC time) that are currently suppressed from view. To manage the custom fields of events, on Events page, click Custom Fields for events link in the right pane of the page.
For more information, see Overview: Custom fields.
You then display a custom field on your website by adding it to a template for displaying events.
For more information, see Overview: Widget templates. |
| Permissions |
You can set permissions for all events, or set individual permissions for each event.
For more information about changing permissions, see Grant permissions for content. |
Event calendars
You can organize your events in calendars that you can color-code the calendars, and then display on the website in Month, Week, or Day view. For more information, see Manage event calendars.
Import events from SharePoint
You can import events and calendars from a SharePoint site.
For more information, see Synchronize Sitefinity CMS with a SharePoint site.