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.

@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 t…

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

@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 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…

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:

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

Allow users to add events to the calendar

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Allow users to add events to the calendar

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