Feature events for higher visibility

What you can learn in this topic

• What featuring events means
• Important facts about featuring
• Setting up featured events: A high-level overview

What featuring events means

To give some events more prominence than others, you can "feature" the events.

Featuring events means making specific events look different from regular events on your calendar. Events you feature are more likely to attract the attention of calendar visitors.

You can set up different levels of featuring to call attention to different types of events. A featured level corresponds to a unique layout and set of styles. For example, you might want to highlight sponsored events one way and official holidays another way.

In the image above, a public library features special events to make them stand out.

In this example, a village association uses two levels (style layouts) to feature important events one way and holidays another way.

Important facts about featuring

• Featured events can look different on different calendars.
• To take advantage of featuring, you must publish a calendar using either the List, Tile, or Classic Table calendar view.
• You can define as many feature levels (style layouts) as you want. You can set the colors and other formatting separately for each level.
• Events reflect the featured settings of the published calendar. For example:
  • You set up featured events for calendar A and you publish calendar A. Result: Events are featured on calendar A.
  • You set up featured events for calendar A but not calendar B. You publish calendar B with calendar A mixed in. Result: No events are featured on the published calendar.
  • You set up featured events for calendar A. You also set up featured events for calendar B but with different styles and layouts than from calendar A. You publish calendar B with calendar A mixed in. Result: Events are featured on the published calendar using the calendar B settings.
• You can highlight featured events in a promotion spud using a featured events filter.

  

  A non-profit conservation organization uses a filtered promotion spud to feature special events.

Setting up featured events: A high-level overview

Because setting up featured events involves several steps, it can seem complicated. It helps to back up and realize that all five required steps support just two basic actions, the ability to:

• Indicate, when adding or editing an event, whether or not you want to feature it, and at what level (if you've set up multiple levels of featured events).
• Define how featured events will look on the published calendar where they appear.

Important If you've run the Trumba Startup Wizard, your default event template already contains a Featured Event custom field, and featured events are already activated for your calendar. If you want multiple levels of featured events (e.g. Basic, Enhanced, Premier), it still may help to review steps 1-3 below. Step 4 introduces customizing the layout for featured events.

Steps for setting up featured events

1	Create a featured events custom field Before you can indicate whether an event is featured or not, you create a featured events custom field that you can assign to one or more event templates. To define your featured events custom field, you use the pre-defined field type List of choices: Featured Levels. Take me to detailed instructions for completing this step.
	Defining a featured event custom field. The field defined here supports three featured levels (style layouts), Basic, Enhanced, and Premier.
2	Assign the featured events custom field to one or more event templates After you create the featured events custom field, you assign the field to one or more existing event templates or to a new template that you create. Then, you base events you want to feature on the event templates that contain the field. Take me to detailed instructions for completing this step.
3	Turn on featured events for your calendar You turn on featured events on a calendar by calendar basis. Turning on featured events means letting a published calendar know about the featured event custom field that you created. Take me to detailed instructions for completing this step. Reminders Events reflect the featured settings of the published rather than the owning calendar. For example, suppose calendar A owns the featured events. Calendar B is published with calendar A mixed in. Calendar B's featured event settings determine whether or not calendar A's events will be featured and how the events will look. Featured events show up only on the List, Tile, and Classic Table calendar views.
	Turning on featured events for a calendar.
4	Select and customize a layout for each featured level you want to use Three calendar views support featured events: Classic Table, Tile, and List. You select and customize featured layouts on the Edit Settings pages for these views. Take me to detailed instructions for completing this step. Reminder Events reflect the featured settings of the published rather than the owning calendar. If owning calendar A is mixed in to published calendar B, set up and customize featured events on calendar B.
	Edit Settings page for Tile view. A layout has been assigned to each of the three featured levels. A tab is created automatically each time you assign a layout. To set the colors, borders, backgrounds, labels, and other attributes for each level, go to the level's tab.
5	(Optional) Promote featured events with a filtered promotion spud Use feature level settings as a filter for displaying featured events in promotion spuds. You can set up the spud to display only featured events or to list featured events first, with all other events following in chronological order. Take me to detailed instructions for completing this step.
	Featured event filter settings on the spud's Edit Settings page.