Making Democracy Work
How to create and maintain a calendar for upcoming events, or keep an archive of past events.
Create a new page and choose the page type of "Calendar". You must enter at least one event on the page before you approve it. You create an event by following the instructions in the yellow-shaded area of the calendar preview page.
No. League Easy Web will automatically order them for you. By default, the oldest date is placed at the top of the list.
Yes, that alternative is available under the Adding Events section.
Just edit the event you want to copy. On the edit page near the bottom, go to the "Copy to New Event" section. Specify the name of the calendar to which you want the event copied, then click on "Copy Event". Next edit the calendar page to which you copied the event. Find the new event and click on "Edit". You may then change what you wish.
Check that you included all elements of the address: street number and street name, city, comma, state code and zip code. Example:123 Main St.
My Town, CA 95000Also verify that the address is correct. If you have problems, contact support@lwvnet.org.
Yes, just follow the rules for Formatting. If you find the information in the description is getting long, you might want to create a new page with all of the details and link to it from the calendar description area.
The words inside of any table entry (Date/time, Location, Description) have a great deal to do with the width of any column. A browser will not break up a word, unless it has a hyphen already, on another line.The most common cause of a too-wide calendar table is the presence of a very long URL that was pasted into the calendar entry.
How to fix this? Do not just paste the URL into the edit box. Always create "link words" like this:
"link words"<page.html>
or
"link words"<+http://website.org/verylongname/file.pdf>
In both cases, the reader will only see "link words" underlined.
The first example is how you can link to a page on your own web site. The second example is how to link to a page or file that is on another web site. For more information, see Linking..
This creates or updates a "past" events page. If you want the page to have a pagename other than "pastcalendar", you can rename the page. If you approve this page, it will be published so the public gets an example of the kind of events your League holds. But you do not have to approve it...
- Edit your calendar page.
- Under "Remove Events", enter the date that occurs after the event(s) you want to save. Specify "Move to: pastcalendar.html". Press "Delete Old Events".
You can just leave it in an unapproved state (probably a red dot). If you have previously approved the page, you may delete it using the option "Remove approved page, keep an unreleased preview". Or you can use it to hold a description of a recurring meeting to make it easier to describe a new event.
There are two ways. If you want to move one or more old events, edit the "Past" page (pastcalendar). Under "Remove Events", enter the date that occurs after the event(s) you want to move. Specify "Move to: calendar.html". Press "Delete Old Events".This will move all events earlier than the date entered to your current Calendar page. Edit that page and you will see the events moved. Edit those events with a new date and any other updates you wish to make.
If you want to restore only one event, you can copy a single event from one calendar page to another. Edit the calendar page with the event, click on "Edit" for that event, then in "Copy To New Event", choose the name of the page where you want the event to appear and click on "Copy".
There must always be one event defined and you asked to move all events from the page. If your "Past" page is not published, define a fake event and then move the events to the current calendar page.
Just add a new event before you ask the system to delete the old ones. If you truly have no upcoming events and don't want the calendar page to show at all, delete the calendar page specifying "Remove approved page, keep an unreleased preview" so you can come back and use it again.
Do not use "Remove Events". Instead click on "Edit" of the event you wish to delete. Scroll to the bottom of that page and press delete. It will be removed (not moved to "Past").
While looking at the preview mode of the calendar page, click on "Edit" at the top. Then you see a form where you can change the Title and the Title in Menu values just like on any other page.To change the page name, click on "Rename" and follow the instructions.
You can change the order by clicking on "Edit" at the top of your calendar preview page. At the bottom of the first form area, check the box next to "Order Events Last First (Reverse Order)"
Perhaps you have a very heavy election season with lots of Candidates Forums and Pros & Cons events. You might consider keeping these events on a calendar page separate from your other League events. Or perhaps you want to keep a calendar for internal League events (Board of Directors meetings, for example).
Yes. You must have a Google account which is free. Here are the steps (as of March 2012):
You will have to approve the page before you can see the calendar.
- Create a calendar
- Click on the down arrow to the right of the calendar name in the left column and then on "Calendar settings".
- Click on "Change sharing settings" in the left column.
- Make the calendar public and click on "Save".
- Copy the
code in the center box just under "Paste this code into your website." - In a LEW edit box, paste the code.