Manage community events
Depending on the access level, we can work in different ways with the events that members have added to the community.
To edit or delete the events that are flagged in the community calendar, we must be a community owner or a community member with Author access to the Events widget. Community members can only edit or delete events they created themselves. Community owners can edit or delete any event in the Events widget.
By default, all logged in users that can access the community can add comments to an event entry. Only a community owner or the comment writer can delete a comment.
A community owner or member can send invitations to interested community members about events.
To manage a community event, select Events from the community navigation, expand an event entry in the Events view, and do one of the following:
- To attend the event, click Will Attend.
- To see a list of others that are attending, scroll to the People Attending section.
- To update the details of an event, click Edit, update the title, date, duration, location, or description of the event, and then click Save.
- To follow a community event, click Follow.
- To delete an event that occurs only once, click More Actions > Delete and then click Delete again.
- To delete an event that repeats, click More Actions > Delete, specify whether to delete the selected instance or the entire series, and then click Delete again.
- To add a comment click Add a comment and enter you comment. Click Save when we have finished.
- To delete a comment, click Delete, and then click Delete again.
- To invite community members to an event, click More Actions > Notify Other People, select the community members, enter a message to accompany the invitation, and then click Notify.
- To change the access level that community members have to events, select Community Actions > Edit Community. Then Click the Events tab, select the role you want members to have and click Save.
Community members have author access to the Events widget by default, which means they can add events, and edit or delete events they create themselves. To restrict member access to the widget so that members can only read information about community events, but cannot add or change event information, we must set the membership role to reader. All community members are given the same role.
- To add community events to the calendar, select Events from the community navigation bar. Click Add to Personal Calendar and click the URL that displays in the box to subscribe to all the events for the community. Depending on the calendar application, we might need to copy the URL into that application. Click OK. Subscribe to the URL that you copied as an iCalendar feed from your personal calendar application.
Your email application must support iCal or iCalendar feeds. By default, we can import events up to six months old and upcoming events up to 12 months into the future. Your administrator can change this setting.
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Scheduling community events
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