Create community events

We can create events in the community Events widget to flag upcoming meetings, all-day events, or events that run for a number of days. To add an event for the community, we must be a community owner or a community member with Author access.

Upcoming Events on the community Overview page lists upcoming events or important dates for the community. We can remind community members about upcoming events and provide details about the event, such as the time and location.

To create a community event:

1. Select Events from the community navigation and click Create an Event.

2. Enter an event name in the Event Title field.

3. Add one or more words that make the event easier to find in the Tags field.

4. Use the drop-down controls, select the starting date and time of the event, and then select the finishing date and time.

5. To specify the event runs for a full day, select All-day event.

   If we select All-day event, the options to specify a starting and finishing time for the event are not available.

6. To create a repeating event, click Repeats. Specify whether you want the event to repeat daily or weekly by selecting the appropriate option from the Repeats list.

   • If we select Daily, the event repeats every day until the specified end date. We can clear any day of the week that you do not want the event to occur.

   • If we select Weekly, the event repeats every week at the specified time on the specified day. We can change the frequency to every two, three, four, or five weeks in the Every field.

   By default, we cannot have more than 700 community event instances in a repeating event. Your administrator can reconfigure this setting.

7. Enter the location of the event into the Location field.

8. Enter a description of the event in to the Description field.

9. To notify community members about this event:

   1. Select Notify community members.

   2. In Select community members, select the boxes next to the names of individual members to invite. To find people, scroll through the alphabetic list of names or type a person's name into the Type to filter this list field. If the activity has more than 500 members, we can click Next to see additional names.

      The filter searches the names on the current page only. If there are multiple pages, click Next until you get to a page with names in the same alphabetic range as the name we are looking for, and then type the name into the filter box.

   3. To add a comment displayed in the invitation that is sent to the members, add it to the Message field.

10. Click Save.

Parent topic:
Scheduling community events

Related:

Manage community events