Calender Questions

[Bridgecity]

Hey Truman,

We're rolling out the event module with out staff, so that everything is in place when we open up the member module.  One of the things that I've not sorted out is this.  It seems that if I enter an event using the "event" tab, then it shows up on the calender that's accessible there.  But if I enter an event through a group, it only shows up on the calender from within the group.  This makes organizational sense, but it gives us no church-wide master calender.  Seems like for the purposes of preventing over-scheduling we need to see all the events on one calender somewhere.  Is this possible?  Am I missing it?

Thanks!

[Truman]

Hey Marc,

When creating the event in the group's event sub-module, make sure to click the publish checkbox and set the target audience to "church members". Then that group's event will show up on the church wide calendar.

Truman

[Bridgecity]

Hmm.  OK.  I didn't know those radio boxes determined which calender within Ascribe the event showed up on.  I thought that was about whether the event published to the public website, extranet or intranet portals.

If that's not the case, then maybe you can counsel me.

We are hoping to have a public events stream on the home page of our website (you helped me work on that a couple of weeks ago), as well as events available in the member log-in portal, and the leader log-in portal.  Along with that we are hoping to have one graphic calender within the leader portal where we can visualize all the church events.

So, I've been clicking "general public" in order to make events visible in the public stream on the website, "church members" if it's something we don't want on the public site, but visible to church members when they log in, and "staff" if we only want it on the intranet portal.  Seemed like that was working.

But the I noticed this:  I entered some leadership events for our small group leaders.  I did this via the events function within the small group leaders ascribe group.  The events showed up on the calender accessible there, but not on the calender accessible under the main "events" tab on the portal home page.  But we want to be able to see ALL church events on one graphic calender so we can easily measure how much we are scheduling for different people.

So, am I of the rail here?

[Truman]

I see what you mean now, Marc. I will work on an upgrade for this.