The Events tab, found in the Content dropdown, allows group admin to create and manage events. The process flow to create a draft event and then publish is similar to as explained in the announcements tab. There are filters to view draft or published events; these also work exactly similar to announcements.  The initial view of events tab is shown in the following image.

To create an event click on the ‘Create Event’ button and choose ‘Create Event.’ This will open a new event page which is shown in the following image.

Once all the fields have been completed, Click Save Draft and the event will be saved as a draft. Please note that similar to Announcements the event is not published at this point and only saved as a draft.

The Create Event Button also gives an option to create a folder to house events that are related.

This opens the Create Event Series window as shown below:



To Publish the draft event select Draft events from the Filter, Click on Action menu against the event to be published and Click Publish.

From the ‘Publish Event’ Window, select the checkbox to send email notification to intended recipients.

Alternatively you can uncheck email to publish the event only on the platform.

Once published the event will be shown in the Published event list after 30 seconds.

Once an event is published, select published events from the ‘Filter by state’, this shows the list of all published events. The Action menu against each event gives several options as shown in the following image.

Click on ‘Request Volunteers’ button, This opens the manage volunteers requests window as shown below.

Click on the plus sign near the ‘Manage Volunteer Requests’ , this will open the ‘Request Volunteer ‘ window as shown below.

Select the event volunteer types from the drop down, and enter the number of volunteers needed. Click submit to request volunteers. 

The Volunteer requests can be updated or deleted from the ‘Manage Volunteer Requests’ window as shown below.

Once a volunteer request has been added, it will appear below the event title as shown in the image below.

Manage Cultural Observances gives the option of creating an event on the calendar and is created for the whole day. To add an observance, click on ‘Manage Cultural Observances.’ 

Click on the plus sign next to Manage Cultural Observances. This will bring up the New Cultural Observances window.

Enter the observance title, date and description and click submit. This will add the observance to the Manage Cultural Observances list as shown below.

Click on Activate on the Action button against the observance we want to create, and this will create the observance.

Likewise from the Action button the observance can be viewed, edited, deactivated, or deleted.