I used to have a separate calendar for events that occur on an ongoing basis to keep my "new" events calendar from being clogged up with events that repeat every day. I found that people were overlooking the ongoing calendar, so I decided to mix it in with my new calendar. However, I would like people to be able to clear ongoing events with one click, rather than having to deselect every category that is mixed into the ongoing calendar. Currently, I have the ongoing calendar set as a top level calendar, but I've also tried doing it as a sub calendar - nothing seems to work.
Please take a look at www.SoleilsToDos.com/newtodos.htm and let me know what I need to do to clear the ongoing to-dos with a single click.
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Calendar Mix-In
Started by Soleil, Jan 12 2008 07:00 AM
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Posted 15 January 2008 - 09:08 AM
While we don’t offer a single click option for this scenario, we do have the Mix-In control for the user to select All or None, and they can then select additional calendars to display/not display.
The only way I can think of creating a “one-click” approach, (and I don’t recommend this
) would be to use the Also Shows On feature in which you would flag all of the Ongoing Events in all of the Ongoing Events sub-calendars to Also Show On the Ongoing Events main calendar. You would then want to make sure you do not mix-in the other Ongoing Event sub-calendars into your main published calendar. If you use this approach, you will see all of the Ongoing Events with one click, however it would not be categorized.
What I would do is probably move away from sub-calendars for your Ongoing Events and make the sub-calendars your Event Types. This way all Ongoing Events could reside on one main calendar, the Ongoing Events calendar. You would then assign an event type to each ongoing event, such as Theater-Ongoing, Live Music-Ongoing, etc., and set up the Filter spud so visitors can start drilling down into the various Ongoing Events based on Event Types.
The only other idea I can think of is what you have already tried, and that is to have a separate calendar for the Ongoing Events with a link that can stand out from this calendar and other links on the page. You could also think about adding a Upcoming Promotion Spud with Ongoing Events to your home page or the calendar page that could help draw attention to these events.
Anyone else have some ideas they would like to share?
Thanks,
Steve
The only way I can think of creating a “one-click” approach, (and I don’t recommend this
) would be to use the Also Shows On feature in which you would flag all of the Ongoing Events in all of the Ongoing Events sub-calendars to Also Show On the Ongoing Events main calendar. You would then want to make sure you do not mix-in the other Ongoing Event sub-calendars into your main published calendar. If you use this approach, you will see all of the Ongoing Events with one click, however it would not be categorized.What I would do is probably move away from sub-calendars for your Ongoing Events and make the sub-calendars your Event Types. This way all Ongoing Events could reside on one main calendar, the Ongoing Events calendar. You would then assign an event type to each ongoing event, such as Theater-Ongoing, Live Music-Ongoing, etc., and set up the Filter spud so visitors can start drilling down into the various Ongoing Events based on Event Types.
The only other idea I can think of is what you have already tried, and that is to have a separate calendar for the Ongoing Events with a link that can stand out from this calendar and other links on the page. You could also think about adding a Upcoming Promotion Spud with Ongoing Events to your home page or the calendar page that could help draw attention to these events.
Anyone else have some ideas they would like to share?
Thanks,
Steve
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