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Promote your organization’s events right on your refined sites. Inform users about the upcoming Christmas party on your intranet, encourage users to sign up for a webinar on your help site, etceteraGet the word out about your next holiday party, release webinar, customer summit, benefits info session, or whatever else is on the calendar. Give attendees something to look forward to by customizing the display with photos, descriptions, sign-up links, and more.

Create and manage events

  1. Go to site settings.

  2. Click the Events tab.

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Create an event

Click the + Create event button and set up the event:

Setting

Description

Background

Shown upon hovering the

Image, color, or gradient

There are multiple ways to pick a color:

  • Select the shade and hue at the top of the popup.

  • Enter an RGB, RGBA, or hex code.

  • Click the eyedropper icon to select a color from anywhere on the page (available in the browsers Firefox and Edge).

  • Click one of the recently used colors.

Use the vertical slider in the middle of the popup to control the color’s opacity.

Title

Shown in the preview in the Events module and at the top of the page.

Starts at & ends at

The date and time

Description

Describe what the event is about

Type: physical

Add the address location where the event takes place.

Type: virtual

Add a link to the service where users can participate in the event.

Manage an event

Click an event’s (blue star) three dots to:

  • Edit. Change the event’s settings

  • Visit page. Go to the event details page on your site

  • Copy event URL. Copy the link to the event details page. You can use it to direct users to the events page, read more in the “Make events visible on your site” section below

  • Delete. Delete the event and all of its settings.

Make the events visible on your site

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Landing pages

Once you’ve created events in the Refined Administration, you can showcase them on landing pages on your site. Simply add an Events module and all your events will by shown dynamically. Want to create a dedicated events hub page on your site? There are ready-made events templates available as well.

To help you make sure your users can easily access your events, a notification in the Events tab will tell you when there are no Events modules on the site.

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Event details page

When a user clicks an event on the landing page, they go to the event details page.

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Linking directly to the event details page

Each event details page has a unique URL. So you can link directly to it from another place on your site (e.g. with a button, card, or other module), social media, Slack, etc. Simply copy the URL when you’re on the event details page, or go to the Events tab, click the (blue star) three dots > Copy URL.