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  1. To better match the design of your site or just because you prefer it, you can customize event and object detail popups and some control and promotion spuds by rounding the border corners. Here is a link to a help topic if you think you may be interested in setting this up for your site: https://www.trumba.com/help/publish/pub_roundcorners.aspx
  2. You can create date icons for use with Promotion Spuds and Tile calendar view. This can create more visual interest and make the date of the event more visible: When designing date icons, you can start from a default design and customize background and border colors, fonts, and more to match your brand identity. Or, you can upload your own date icon image and customize the month, date, and day of week text. You can create an unlimited number of date icons so you have a library of multi-colored date icons that can be used on different promotion spuds and the Tile calendar view. Here is a link to a help topic if you think you may be interested in setting this up for your site: https://www.trumba.com/help/publish/pub_dateicon.aspx Note: The features is only available for Trumba Connect account holders. (To see your account type, click Account Settings and look under Subscription Information.) If you'd like to learn more about the benefits of Trumba Connect accounts, please contact Sales
  3. Trumba spuds cannot be embedded within an email as they are typically stripped out. Trumba spud code is javascript based and email clients will typically strip that out as it detects it as a possible virus, which it isn't. If you set up a digest email within Trumba, you can set these up to be sent out to include the next week, two weeks, next month or all future events. Visitors who want to stay updated about new events can subscribe to your published calendars. https://www.trumba.com/help/subscribe.aspx
  4. The search will scan all events looking for those keywords and not the specific phrase, so you will get the specific phrase as well as any events that match the keywords. If you want to pull just the phrase, you may want to set up a Filter View, this way you can create a Filter View called Contemporary Book Discussion (if that phrase is the description of the event OR a value in a custom field). MORE INFORMATION: https://www.trumba.com/help/api/urlparameters.aspx
  5. The Location Search spud supports automatically detecting the visitor's location when searching for nearby events. This feature is enabled on mobile devices but can also be enabled for desktop computers. See the Location Search spuds help topic for more information.
  6. Trumba offers Custom Font support for Adobe® Typekit, Adobe Edge Web Fonts, or Google Fonts.
  7. Trumba supports both Facebook and Disqus Comments. Here is a help topic with more details for you: on how to set this up within your account: https://www.trumba.com/help/publish/pub_facebookcomments.aspx
  8. We do offer these types of feeds: RSS, XML, CSV, iCal and JSON. What you can do is select the Published calendar from your Trumba account and then select Publish Settings and then select the Feeds tab on the next page. From here you can see the feeds settings and each feed has Edit Settings & Styles that you can control the settings. Here is a link to help topic on how you can also customize the feeds. You can also export your calendars from Trumba out to an ICS or CSV format.
  9. Include HTML This setting is included with the following feeds: JSON, RSS, XML (Atom) and iCal. This setting allows HTML to be turned off in the feeds, and mainly for iCal feeds since programs like Outlook do not recognize the HTML and display the HTML code instead of formatted text. The default feed setting is set to Yes. These settings can be found under Publish>Feeds tab and then Edit Settings & Styles for each feed. You can also override the default setting using the HTML URL parameter. For example https://www.trumba.com/calendars/concerts.rss?html=0 will output the RSS feed without HTML formatting. Valid values are true, 1, false, or 0. As a note, the RSS and XML (Atom) feeds don’t look very good in browsers if you turn off HTML because the text runs together without the line breaks so it’s probably best to leave the default as Yes for RSS and XML (Atom) feeds. Include Custom Fields in Notes Since most calendar programs that read the published iCal feed don’t recognize Trumba custom field properties in the iCal file there is need to include these values in body of the event along with the Description field so they will show up in calendar programs that subscribe to the feed. The default is set to No for each published calendar, so you may want to edit the feed settings to Yes. These settings can be found under Publish>Feeds tab and then Edit Settings & Styles for the iCal feed. You can also override the default setting using the customnotes URL parameter. For example https://www.trumba.com/calendars/concerts.ics?customnotes=1 will output the iCal feed with custom fields in the notes.
  10. We also have functionality that allows you to change your calendar colors within the Trumba editing environment by changing the existing 24-colors that are in the default palette with specific HEX color values that you can specify. To the right of the calendar you can click the blue drop down arrow and then select Edit Colors. Here is a help topic with additional information: https://www.trumba.com/help/sml_pub_colorsee.aspx
  11. When you see RSS Feed Served within the Publisher Dashboard, this is based on the number of people/visitors that have subscribed to your RSS feed for a published calendar and the number of times the feeds have been sent to those subscribers. This does not mean these are unique visitors or subscribers. Within their RSS Readers, they can decide the frequency in which the feeds get refreshed/served to them. Sounds like some of them have set their frequency quite high causing your stats to be higher than expected. You may have a RSS feed for example that powers your mobile app. If the app is pulling the RSS Feed from your account once every 15-minutes looking for updates. This would come to 3,072 RSS feeds served over a 32 day period. These RSS Feeds also count as a Page View (which is what I think you mean as a “Promotion View” (?)), so each time data is pulled from the Trumba servers this does count towards your page views. So think of 3,072 as page views. Page Views occur anytime a site visitor loads a web page that has a main calendar spud; a promotion spud; event detail views (clicking on an event to see the details); pop-ups on any calendar or promotion spud; RSS feeds, XML feeds and iCal feeds. MORE INFORMATION: https://www.trumba.com/help/publish/dashboard.aspx
  12. An HTML editor is available (for Trumba Connect accounts only) and you will see this for the Description field and other custom multi-line text fields within your Trumba account. This will make it easier for you and editors to add some basic HTML tags such as bold, italic, horizontal lines as well as embed and link images and more. MORE INFORMATION: How to use the HTML editor
  13. An HTML editor is available (for Trumba Connect accounts only) and you will see this for the Description field and any multi-line text field that you create within your Trumba account. This will make it easier for you and editors to add some basic HTML tags such as bold, italic, horizontal lines as well as embed and link images and more. MORE INFORMATION: How to use the HTML editor
  14. An HTML editor is available on the Description field and any multi-line text custom fields within your Trumba editing environment. This will make it easier for you and editors to add some basic HTML tags such as bold, italic, horizontal lines as well as embed and link images and more. How to use the HTML editor NOTE: The HTML editor is available for Trumba Connect accounts only, not Trumba Professional accounts. All Trumba Professional account holders can continue to manually enter in HTML tags within multi-line text fields.
  15. Trumba supports the creation of a wait list for event registration. When a wait list is created, the Trumba account holder can either manually invite others to register who are on the wait list when one or more seats open up for the event if an attendee cancels or the wait list can be set up to Auto-Invite. This option automatically invites people from a wait list instead of manually inviting them to register if one or more openings are available for your event. Here are a few help topics that go into a few more details on setting this up. SET UP EVENT REGISTRATION | MANAGE EVENT REGISTRATION RESPONSES
  16. If you have a mobile website designed for tablets and phones, you can easily create a version of your events calendar optimized for that site using the Mobile Table calendar view spud. The Mobile Table view has been pre-configured to display well on smaller mobile screens. But, as with other calendar views, you can customize the view to suit your specific needs. Here is a link to help topic for more details.
  17. When customizing colors in the Publishing Control Panel, a popup color picker lets you select from a palette of top used colors and specify color in HEX, RGB or HSV formats. You can even upload your own image and the color picker will display a custom palette of the top colors in the image. See Get the most out of the Color Picker for more information.
  18. Currently the Classic Table, List and Tile calendar views along with a the Photo Upcoming, Event Slider, and Upcoming Date table Promotion Spud allow you to control the fields that display. So on these views you can option show the Summary custom field and not the Description field. There is not an option currently to control the fields that appear on the event detail views. Currently all published fields will display on the Event Details page. You may want to also consider not creating a Summary custom field. Instead, you may be able to reserve and use the built-in Description field as your Summary. In the Description field, you may want to reserve the first 200 characters of the Description field as the "summary". On your calendar views you can then include the Description field and allow it to only display 200 characters, which would display the "summary" text. Then on the event details, you will see the full Description field, including the "summary" text.
  19. Trumba allows you to use your own custom registration icons for “Sign Up”, “Wait List” and “Event is Full” buttons. Because you customize buttons on a calendar-view-by-calendar-view basis, each view can use its own set of buttons if you like. NOTE: These calendar views do not support event registration buttons: Classic Month, Classic Multi-Week, News, Map, and Linear Grid. You are familiar with the default/basic registration buttons such as "Sign Up": You can enhance your calendar views and create a more visible registration button for Sign Up, Wait List and Event is Full. Here is an example of a custom sign up icon in use by the Classic Table calendar view: For additional information, please see our help topic on How to customize open registration buttons.
  20. If you event template is set up with the pre-defined event image and/or detail image field and you have added images to your images table within Trumba, you can quickly find an existing image and add it to an event or object by searching for the image by all or part of its name. Check out the online help topic for more details.
  21. You can publish different views of the same calendar on different pages of your website. All you have to do is embed, on each page where you want a new view, a slightly modified version of the main calendar spud code. To modify the code, add a url argument that uses a template parameter to specify the view. <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $Trumba.addSpud({ webName: "name", url: {template: "viewname" }, spudType: "main"}); </script> Where it says "name", your calendar's unique web name for the published calendar appears. You can find the template parameter's "viewname" values here. For example, if you want to publish a calendar using the 3 Columns view, replace "viewname" with "3columns". To customize the main spud code and publish an alternate view In the Publishing Control Panel, on the Calendar Spuds tab, under Main Calendar Spud, copy the main calendar spud script code. Paste the code into a webpage where you want to publish the calendar with a different view. Modify the code you just pasted by adding a URL argument (as shown in the example above). For "view name," provide the name of the calendar view template name you want to use. Preview the page to make sure the code works and that you see the intended view.
  22. By default, event links in promotion spuds point to the version of your calendar hosted on trumba.com. You can easily change where event links point by putting the URL for your own calendar page into the Calendar Address field in Publish Settings. Updating the Calendar Address field affects more than just spuds. It also means that visitors who click event links in your calendar emails and RSS feeds will jump to the calendar on your website. To update a calendar's address Copy the URL for the page on your website where the main calendar spud is embedded. Tip Be sure to include the http:// or https:// portion of the URL. In your Trumba account, confirm that the published calendar you want to update is selected with a black check mark and click Publish. In the Publishing Control Panel, on the Publish Settings tab in the Publish Settings section, click Edit Publish Settings. For Calendar Address, paste the URL that you copied in step 1 and Click OK. Tip The calendar address URL must include http:// or https:// or it won't work. To see and test how promotion spuds respond to your calendar address updates, return to the Publishing Control Panel. Click the Promotion Spuds tab. The spud script now contains the teaserBase argument. As shown below, the value for that argument is the URL you pasted into the Calendar Address field. <script type="text/javascript"> $Trumba.addSpud ( { webName: "yourcalwebname", spudType: "upcoming", teaserBase: "URL for your calendar page" }); </script> To test where each promotion spud's event and other links take you, click Preview. Copy the updated promotion spud script that is displayed and replace the original script on your live website.
  23. Every published calendar has an event detail view, and event detail views are part of the main calendar spud. You can refine the styles and behavior of the event detail view in the Publishing Control Panel, independent of the main calendar view settings. Although a published calendar can only have one event detail view, there are two different event detail views you can select from: Event Detail (default) and Event Detail - Enhanced. If your calendar events include images and/or map links, go with the Event Detail - Enhanced view. With this view, you have more control over information, image, and map thumbnail layout, and the Description field can wrap around and under the image. Check out the online help topic for more information.
  24. By implementing Single Sign-On (SSO), you give Trumba publishers and editors access to their Trumba accounts through one standard sign-in process. No separate Trumba user names and passwords are required. For example, after SSO is set up, each Trumba account holder can use the same URL to directly access their individual accounts. To provide SSO support, Trumba uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) XML standard. Trumba, as the service provider, communicates with your organization's SAML 2.0 identity provider. Your identity provider controls the information used to authenticate and authorize users. Trumba does support the SAML protocol which ADFS also supports. On the Trumba side we just require the SAML metadata from your ADFS system and need to know how the users email address will be returned in the SAML response (either via the NameIdentifier element or a named attribute). The Trumba metadata for setting up the ADFS side is available at https://www.trumba.com/sp Please see our online help topic for step-by-step instructions on how to set this up.
  25. If you want to make the calendar fit into a set space that's narrower than the default calendar width, you can place it into a DIV tag, using the best width and height for your page, and use the overflow attribute to add scroll bars to the DIV container. For example, <div style="width:400px; overflow:auto;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $Trumba.addSpud ( { webName: "yourcalwebname", spudType: "spudtype" }); </script> </div> Special case: Multi-day template The Multi-day template requires a width of nearly 800px and behaves a little differently than the others. If your calendar uses this template, and you want it to fit into a narrower space, you need to take the code above one step further. First, you need to create a DIV for the dimensions you want the calendar to fill on your page. Then you create a second DIV to hold the calendar. This is what the code looks like: <div style="width:400px; overflow:auto;"> <div style="width:800px;> Spud code </div> </div>
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