Configure your Channel Summary to show events

If you have pages on your website that represent events, you can choose to display information about the events on your Channel Summaries.

Last updated: 09 May 2012, 15:55

Create a new Channel Summary page

When viewing the site in edit mode you will need to select - 'Create New Page'.
This will bring up the template gallery - from here we select 'Navigation' and then 'Channel Summary'. You will then be able to see the text editor. Here you can input an introductory passage for your events calendar.

You will then need to configure how to display the event details. This can be achieved using the Channel Summary settings

Display event details along with your summarised pages

To display event information (start date, end date, category, location), choose one of the following in the Show Event Details dropdown on the Channel Summary settings page:

Show for first item only
Show for all items except first
Show for all items

Sort the summarised pages by event date

To display the pages in order of event date, choose Event Start Date, Nearest First on the Sorting dropdown on the Channel Summary settings page.

Configure the Events Display

If you want to make your events searchable and optionally display a calendar, you then need to scroll down to the placeholder called Events Filter. You can use the settings in this placeholder to define how the events display on this page. A full explanation of each option is provided below.

Show Calendar	Allows your users to browser your events by clicking on a calendar. See Default Date Selection, below.
Show 'I am looking for'	If this is selected, then site visitors will have the option of filtering events by category. The selected value will be used to filter the event summary.
Show Google Maps location search	If this is selected, then site visitors will have the option of viewing the events location on a Google Map. They will have the option to link through to Google in order to receive directions to the event.
Default Date Selection	You can give site Visitors the option of seeing an Event Summary selected by date. If you select a value in this field, then this is the date range that will be used when the page is opened. If the Show calendar option is also selected, then the Visitors will have the option of selecting a date range from a calendar.
Add a custom time period	Select if you wish to add a custom time period to your events calendar. For example The Academic Year or The Football Season. This will show in the 'When' dropdown.
Custom time period name (eg 'academic year')	Name this custom time period.
Custom time period start	Define a start date for the Custom Time Period.
Custom time period end	Define an end date for the Custom Time Period
Enforced categories (will appear in dropdown even if no matching events exist). One per line.	Your users can browse events based on the categories that have been defined in the event meta data. If you want some categories to be displayed in the dropdown menu even if there are no matching events, enter them here.
Enforced locations (will appear in dropdown even if no matching events exist). One per line.	Your users can browse events based on the locations that have been defined in the event meta data. If you want some locations to be displayed in the dropdown menu even if there are no matching events, enter them here.
Display enforced categories and locations in alphabetical order.	Check this box to display the enforced categories and locations in alphabetical order.
Show Search Button	Check this box to show a search button underneath the three drop down lists (Type, Location and Date). If this option is selected, the page will not auto-refresh when values are chosen from the drop downs.

The final step that you need to take is to ensure that you have checked the Filter events on this channel summary box, to ensure that the changes that you have made to this placeholder will be applied to this page.

Once you have configured the page you can select to save the page.
You will be asked to add a 'Name' and a 'Display Name' to the page, once you are happy select 'OK'.
If you are an author on the site your page will be submitted for approval. If you are an editor you will need to approve the page to go onto the live site. This can be achieved by selecting .

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