We’ve heard your feedback over the years, and Events has consistently been one of, if not the, most-requested feature for 3.0. So today, we’re pleased to announce the long-awaited release of Events for Ning 3.0.
Events are an important component of a successful community, as they allow members to come together, whether virtually or online, at a designated time and place. As we rebuilt Events, we’ve kept the good parts from Events on 2.0 and added some improvements to make it even more powerful.
Semi-Private Events
In addition to Public and Private events, we’ve added a new privacy option: Semi-private. While Private events will be hidden from people who aren’t invited, Semi-private events will still appear in the list of upcoming events. However, only the event date, picture, and title will be visible. People who aren’t already invited to your Semi-private event will need to request an invitation to view the event details and RSVP.
Updated RSVP Options & Google Calendar
RSVP options now include a Going, Might go, and Not going responses, whose wording can be changed in the Language Editor. You can now RSVP directly from the Events page, in addition to the event details page, using the “Are you going?” drop down menu.
Once you’ve RSVP’d, you can easily add the event to your Google Calendar, using the Google Calendar button found under the RSVP drop down menu on each event.
Search
While network-wide Search is still in the works, we’ve added a search field to Events. Search through all events or through a specific date range using the “Date range” drop down menu next to the search field.
This is only the first of many more features to come, so please check back here again soon for more announcements in the coming weeks and months!
Click on the following link to find a detailed guide for Events in our Ning 3.0. Help Center - Events Guide
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Officially using it as of now!
Very nice as had a good play around with this new feature and added some of my own styling to them. One thing I have noticed though is that if you add a module using the add content it will show ALL events not just the ones from this day onwards ie upcoming events. This I noticed especially while adding events from a category. What would be a nice option when using the add content is have a checkbox that you could tick to only show upcoming events from these modules if you so wish to do that.
Here is an example from adding a module using add content and choosing events from a category. Notice it shows all the events from past and upcoming. So if we had a checkbox option we could choose whether to display past events or not as well.
Other than that it works great so far.
Example of the add content module showing all events past and present
Hi John,
I've just been playing with the 'add content' ability and when it asks you 'from' and give you the options below and one is upcoming or is it still showing all events - I've only added one so far.
Also in terms of your styling is it possible to have a number of events appear side by side like in two columns?
Mike I had a play around with the events into two columns side by side and if you take a look at my events2 page you will see them in that format. It still has some work to do to get the sizing right depending on what has been added but so far it's looking great. Will add a post about how to do it once I have got a little further with it.
You can see the page here: http://bizzssite.ning.com/events2
Sorry John been away and just catching up - the link says page cannot be found
Hi Mike, That option will only show the Upcoming events as these are the already pre-defined options. So yes if you choose the Upcoming option only the Upcoming events will be shown.
The part you may have read above about them showing all up is from a category. You see if you add categories these would show up in the 'From' option list so there then is no way to choose Upcoming or All Past and Present events as the category you slect is the data for the From section. So I asked if a checkbox could be added so that if you choose the content to come from a category then you can select another option of which events list you would like to show ie Upcoming or All.
Yes I should think it would be possible, will have a play around with that and see what I come up with.
John :-)
Right I've got you sorry i misunderstood a bit - not using categories just yet. Our site has a lot of custom code thanks to the wonderful skills of sweet potato. He is no longer doing design on Ning so I'm on the look out for someone to help us re-skin the platform a little later in the year. Would you be up for a convo? www.community.dpgplc.co.uk
Hi John,
Thanks for your feedback.
That seems to be a nice idea to make the events module working the way you have described it, and we have already passed this feedback to the management.
Thanks,
Ning Team.
Thanks Kyrl :-)
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