Contents
Goal
Primary objective of this article is to explain how to enable, and configure Events at your site. Please read it completely to understand all available options
Accessing the configuration options
Navigate to site Back End, and from Components dropdown menu, select JomSocial->Configuration
Locate the Events settings and make sure that Events are enabled (they are enabled by default)
Other options explained
- Allow guests to search events - Should unregistered visitors be able to see events?
- Moderate Event Creation - If enabled, Administrator will have to approve every new event
- Allow Events Creation - Allow users to create events
- Enable Recurring Event - Enable or disable recurring events
- Event Creation Limits - Set the limit of maximum events that single user can create. 0 for unlimited.
- Allow export to iCal - Allow exporting of events into iCal formated file
- Allow import from iCal - Allow users to import events from iCal formated file
- Show maps in events - enable or disable Google maps on event page
- Nearby events radius - Allow the system to search for events within defined radius
- First Day of week - Allows administrator to define what will be the first day in calendar
- Event listings date format - Event date format on Lists (not on event page itself)
- Event time selection format - Chose the time format for events. This only applies to date selection.
- Event time selection format - Configure to display time zone in events.
Additional Events options
In template settings
Default JomSocial templates have option to show latest events on frontpage to public or registered members as well as hiding it completely.
Please navigate to Components->JomSocial->Templates and open the template that is currently in use at the site
locate this option
- Show latest events - This option control the visibility of Latest Events box on frontpage
In Layout Settings
Navigate back to JomSocial Configuration and find the Frontpage options under layout Pane
- Frontpage Recent Events - is an option which will determine how many recent events will be shown in the Latest Events box on frontpage.
- Event List - This setting let you chose to display either upcoming or featured events in frontpage box.
In Anti Spam settings
Under Anti Spam pane in jomSocial configuration, you can set how many events user can create on a daily basis
In Multiprofiles
Please, click on a Components dropdown menu and select JomSocial -> Multiprofile
- Allow event creation - If you set this to No it will completely disable event creation for specified profiletype, overriding all settings