This article will outline the backpanel settings and step-by-step guide on creating/editing Regular Events Regular Events is used to create occasions that may occur on a weekly basis.
This article will outline the backpanel settings and step-by-step guide on creating/editing Regular Events
Regular Events is used to create occasions that may occur on a weekly basis. These events do not require a ticket purchase.
Prerequisite
- To access the "Regular Event" setup:
- Events Role Privileges will need to be enabled
- Roles "Role Maintenance" Panel
- Privilege Flags: "Events"
- Regular Event will need to be active
- Feature Control "Side Nav" tab
- "Show Hidden?" Flag
- Regular Event: ON (Blue)
Regular Event
Function | Description |
Show Inactive? |
ON: Displays all regular events including inactive events OFF: Displays only active regular events |
Show | A dropdown list with numerical options that can be selected to apply a limit to the number of regular events that will appear on the list |
Venue | A dropdown, listing all venues setup in Myplace. 'All Venues' option will display events from every venue while, selecting a specific venue will only show events from this particular site |
# | A unique value to identify the regular event |
Name | A title for the event, this is not displayed on the app |
Heading | A event label that will display within the app |
Venue | TBC |
Sold/Total | TBC |
Status |
ON (Blue): The event will be active and appears on the App OFF (Red): The event will be disabled and does not appear on the app |
Display Order |
The order in which the events will show on the app, descending from 0 |
Option |
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Creating/Editing a Regular Event
- After login to Myplace backpanel, use the guide below to create/edit a regular event and configure the settings:
Guide Step 1 - Accessing Regular Events Configurations
- Follow the below steps to access the regular events setup panel:
- Regular Events page can be accessed by clicking the Regular Event on the menu sidebar
- Click the respective icon to open the setup panel
- A. This icon is used to modify a existing regular event
- B. This icon is used to create a new regular event
- Both buttons will display a setup panel that have the exact same configurations, only difference is edit icon will open with prefilled configurations
Step 2 - Regular Event Settings
- This step will outline different areas of the regular event setup panel
General
- Internal Name*
- A title used within Myplace but will not be displayed on the app
- A Required Field
- Venue
- A drop down field that lists all venues set in Myplace.
- Click 'All Venues' to apply the event to every site associated with Myplace
- Select a specific venue to apply the event to this site only
- Display Heading
- A title that will display on the Myplace app for users to see
- Active Flag
- ON (Ticked): The event is active across Myplace and will appear in the regular event tab on the app.
- OFF (Not ticked): The event will be disabled. It will not be viewable on the app and cannot be used through Myplace
- Short Description
- A brief sentence to outline important event information such as what the event is about
- Long Description
- A more detailed explanation of the event
- Users could include relevant musician names, product names or areas of the venue the event will take place
- The text editor has different options to customise the text
Date/Time
- Event Start Date Time*
- A Required Field
- The exact time the event will start
- Click the clock icon in this field and adjust the time accordingly, then click outside the open time panel to apply it
- Event End Date Time*
- A Required Field
- The exact time the event will End
- Click the clock icon in this field and adjust the time accordingly, then click outside the open time panel to apply it
- Select day of the week this event happens on
- The weekly days that these event may occur on
- Click the boxes next to each day to enable them or press 'Select all' option which will tick all the days
- Display Enquiry Button Flag
- ON (Ticked): A button will display when this event is viewed. This button will open a new panel where users can ask about the event through a message. These will appear on the Enquiry page of Myplace Backpanel
- OFF (Not Ticked): The button will not appear
Schedules
- Notification
- There is a toggle that sends messages to users about the event
- ON (Blue): Notification settings will appear and user can send a message. The notification will be sent out on the assigned start date of a schedule.
- Notification Settings
- Push Notification
- Notification Content
- Default: Uses the default message, "We have a new event" as the notification text
- Custom: Input a desired message to be used for the notification
- System Notification
- System Notification Content
- A dropdown field with options of all available Notification setups in Myplace Backpanel
- Press an option to apply
- Tiers
- Select which member groups will receive the notification
- Click "Target All", to send it to every member or tick the boxes next a tier to select it
- OFF (Red): Notification settings are hidden and no message will be sent
- ADD DISPLAY SCHEDULE
- It is required that one Schedule is active
- Schedules create a time frame where the event will be available to see on the app
- Click this button to open the "Create Schedule" panel for adding new time periods
- Create Schedule
- Start Date
- A beginning date and time for the schedule
- Click the calendar icon in the field to choose a date/time or click TODAY next to the field to use the current date/time
- End Date
- A finish date and time for the schedule
- Never Expired flag
- ON: The schedule will not be assigned an end date and the schedule will run forever. This will hide the field below for selecting end date/time
- OFF: below field for end date selection is available. Click the calendar icon in the field to choose a date/time or click TODAY next to the field to use the current date/time
- Tier selection
- select the member tiers that the event is available for, within this schedule
- Click Gift Certificate (Select all tiers) to choose every tier or individually tick each box next to desired tiers
- SUBMIT/Cancel
- Click SUBMIT to save and add the schedule to the list or cancel to discard it
- Edit
- Click the icon on the left to change settings of existing schedules. It will open the "Create Schedule" panel. The panel configurations are outlined in 'ADD DISPLAY SCHEDULE' located above
- Delete
- Click the icon to remove the schedule from the list
Image/Banner
- Banner
- This will appear as the background image on the regular events tab
- This is also used as the banner image on the specified event screen. accessed by clicking the event
- Image
- This will appear in two areas on the what's on Card on the homepage and the favourites screen accessible through the profile screen
- On the whats on card view, the image will be cropped by 100 pixels on both, the top and bottom of the image
- Follow the procedure below to apply a image/banner to the event:
1. Choose either Banner or Image and click the respective area
2. File Explorer will open. Find and select the desired image and click Open
3. The picture will appear with a selection box
4. Scale the box using the corners or move it by clicking and dragging.
5. Once the selection is final click Confirm and it will apply
6. A UNDO IMAGE CHANGE button will appear underneath the image/banner areas and is used for reverting the picture back to the previous picture
Step 3 - Save- To save all configurations. Click the Update and Exit button at the bottom of the page. If any required fields are empty then a prompt will appear asking to configure this field.