To build an events site that works best for your audience, we'll need your help defining the filters that visitors will use to search and browse your events. Filters control what your visitors can search and browse by. Things like date ranges, location, topic category, and more.
Before we begin building your events site, please review the sections below and provide your selections for each filter type. If you're not sure what a filter should include, take a look at a few live examples:
You don't need to use every filter, only include the ones that make sense for your content. If a filter isn't applicable, simply leave the columns blank.
Filters in the Event Module help categorize events and allow end users to find specific types of events more rapidly. In the Events Module, you can have up to 10 different filters aligned with the columns in the spreadsheet. When you create an event, your content creators will populate a filter value for each filter listed in this spreadsheet (if the filter field is required). On each Event page, the filter value(s) selected for each filter will be displayed under the Details section on the right-hand side of each Event page.
Filters are also used in our Upcoming Event Block, which displays events on non-event pages with the option of filtering for specific types of events using these filters. Filters are additionally utilized on the Events Listing Index page in the Sidebar section, allowing end users to drill down further on specific types of events. On the Events Listing Index, you can decide which filters you want displayed in the sidebar section and customize how each filter is displayed to your end users.
This field will be used in the Event/Recurring Event Data definition. If a Multi-Select field type is selected, your content creators can choose multiple Filter Values (C4) for the filter to categorize each event. If Single Dropdown field type is selected, your content creators can only select one Filter Value (C4) for the filter.
This is tied to the Row A Filter Field type setup in the Event/Recurring Event Data definition. Do you want to require your content creators to populate a value for this filter when creating a new event, or should it be an optional field? Using the “Example Filter - 1 Topic” column, the example says that every content creator will be required to select at least one Filter Value for Topic Filter.
On each Event page, content creators will have the option to choose one or more of these values (depending on the filter field type) for the specific filter.
Do you want to display the Filter on the Events Listing page in the Sidebar section so end users who are visiting your Events homepage will have the option to use this filter/filter values to help find specific events? If NO this filter would be considered more of an internal filter versus an externally facing filter and populating the remaining Rows D-F is not required.
If different than the default Filter Name
If you decide that you do want the filter displayed on your Events Listing Index page there are several field display types that you can select from:
1. Multiselect Checkbox (list of checkboxes)
2. Multiselect Checkbox Dropdown
3. Single Select Dropdown
Only required when the “Events Listing Index Page Filter Type” (E) is Single Select dropdown. Ex “Select”, “Any”, “All”, etc.
F. For Each Event listed on the Events Listing Index page - should the filter value(s) be added to the event summary?
1. no
2. yes, as text
3. yes, as dots
Applicable only if dots are selected in "Show on Events List". If Yes as dots - A specific color (either Hex #000000 or RGB rgb(0,0,0)) is needed for each of the filter values you want to be shown on the event