Allow users to add events to the calendar

Wishlist Event Calendar
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For a community based site, it would be extremely useful and create more engagement to allow users to add their own events to the calendar.

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Folks, our former Wishlist portal, where our users shared their requests and suggestions, was transferred to this forum. You’re most welcome to vote, add new ideas, and leave your comments here — we surely will consider them all! :star_struck:

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Is there a forum post that discusses this topic further? I love the event calendar widget but need the ability for a client/community member to add dates to the calendar (so I don’t have to LOL)…

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@T111 I guess you’ve found the right topic! :slight_smile:

I’m afraid we really don’t have an option for website visitor to add their own events to the Event Calendar widget, and we’re collecting all the ideas and thoughts regarding this request :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot for sharing, we’ll try to consider this option in the future updates!

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For a group shared or association calendar it would be helpful to have a form to submit all content for events. Images, descriptions, venue, etc to 1 email.
Or better yet, they could create events if in the group for the calendar

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@Jennifer_Buffington It’s wonderful that you’ve made a decision to be with us! Welcome :wave:

Great suggestion, indeed! If it’s going to gain ground, we’ll try to make it happen in one of the nearest updates :slightly_smiling_face:

Feel free to vote for other ideas, leave yours or ask questions - we’re always here for you!

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We have an event widget that features events from across the community for people that share common interests.

It would be great to have a submission form that would allow any web visitor to submit all the information required to add that event to our events widget. Once submitted, ideally we would get an email showing all the information (maybe previewing how it will look on our site in the event widget) which we can review, and if acceptable, approve.

Once approved, the event would get added to our event listing, and the widget updates would get published.

As a web user, I want to submit my event to be shared on this event widget, so that my event can be featured/advertized.

As an event widget administrator that wants to feature relevant events on my website, I want a streamlined way of receiving and posting events from the community, so that I can efficiently add new events to my website from third parties.

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Hey there @user4596 and welcome to Community :wave:

A huge thank you for such a detailed description of your use case!

We already have such a request in our Wishlist, and I’ve moved your comment there. We’ll keep you abreast of any changes here :slightly_smiling_face:

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It would help if the workflow includes a review by the site admin before getting published to the calendar. I would hate for a guest to submit an event that is not relevant to the website.

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Great suggestion @Shany_Porras :+1:

We’ll have it in mind when considering this feature. Thank you so much for your input, this is huge!

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Yes I agree. As page owner I want to be able to see what has been submitted before it goes live. Thanks!

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Hi @Maureen :wave:

I absolutely agree that this option would make the process of adding new events more reliable. We’ll try to consider this feature as well. All the updates will be posted here :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks a lot for your interest and help!

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This would really help several organizations for which I manage sites. Especially the ones with lower budgets; they’re desperate for workflow help. They’d love a form with their required fields for the event, the ability to upload an image, and a preapproval process needed to publish.

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Greetings @user9090 and welcome aboard :wave:

A huge thank you for sharing the details of your use case with us!

We do have it mind and I really hope our devs will find a way to add it to the widget. All the updates will be posted here :slightly_smiling_face:

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https://theeventscalendar.com/products/community-events/

Here is an example of this functionality. User can submit event fields by filling out a form. those fields are held in draft until approved by admin and then admin can add simply by approving.

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Hey @Gabriel_Veasley and welcome to the Community :wave:

Thanks a million for sharing an example of this functionality, it’s much appreciated!

We’ll try to think in this direction in our future updates. We’ll keep you informed about any news :slightly_smiling_face:

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It would be cool if i could add User, that can add there own events to the calendar.
Something like: I connect the User to a special host, so he can post events as this host.
Sorry, my english is kind of bad :slight_smile: hope you got what I meant.

It would be although nice if you could get a link/way to include a link, that is maybe set to this host or special location (always possible to change afterwards)
But than this person could include his events on his site.

One additional filter could be (close to location) but only a city.

Sorry a lot of ideas :slight_smile:

Share your use case and provide as many details to support your idea as possible:

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  1. Do I understand correctly that you’d like to share the access to the widget with the event host?

  2. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite understand this idea “It would be although nice if you could get a link/way to include a link, that is maybe set to this host or special location (always possible to change afterwards)”. Could you please elaborate on it?

  3. As for the additional filters, we already have such a request. You can vote for this feature to keep up with the latest updates :slightly_smiling_face:

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