Setting up the calendar
All Yuku boards have a community calendar available. To view your calendar, follow the link in the Community Statistics box at the bottom of the front page of your community. All members who have access to view the calendar will see the link.
The calendar is divided into two parts - a navigation & search sidebar, and calendar content.
Calendar Sidebar
The calendar sidebar contains the following items
- Mini Month - clicking the dates, month and year allow you to jump straight to that date in the main view
- Date Search - search for events between two dates
- Tag Search - search for events with specific tag words
- Group Search - search for events in specific groups
Calendar Content
Month View - This is the default view of the calendar. It shows the current month with links to any events and, if applicable, a birthday icon on dates when your members are celebrating their birthday.
Event View - This is the view you get when clicking on a link to view the details of an event. It is very similar to how posts look in forums. From this view you can edit and delete events.
Search View - When searching the calendar, the view changes to a traditional forum layout. You can order search results by clicking on the column headings.
Managing the Calendar
The board owner and administrators with "design" powers, can change calendar settings.
Settings
The general settings for the calendar are:
- Auto Add Birthdays - Automatically add members birthdays to your calendar. A cake icon will be displayed on the appropriate dates. If a member has their birthday set as restricted viewing, their birthday will not show up on the calendar.
- Display Birthdays - Display a list of members celebrating their birthday on that day in the stats box on your community front page
- Display Future Events - Display a list of events coming soon in the stats box on your community front page
- Future Events Period - Choose how far in the future an event can be so that it is displayed in the list of future events.
Permissions
You can set who can view and who can post events on the community calendar. Moderators and administrators will always be able to view and add events to calendar, if left unchecked then no other members can.
Groups
You can use groups to categorize events in your calendar. You can add, delete and edit groups and use custom icons to denote them on the calendar and events
lists.
To create a new group.
The groups above will look like this on the calendar.
You can use CSS to style how the groups appear on the monthly view, adding backgrounds or different color links for each event type.
