Create calendars

When you first sign in to Trumba® Connect, you already have a default calendar in your account. The calendar name reflects the name you used when you signed up for your account.

When you're ready to add events to the calendars that you want to publish to your website, you can rename and set up the default calendar and create as many new calendars and sub-calendars as you want.

I don't know whether to create a top-level calendar or sub-calendar.

I'd like to know more about the default calendar.

Tips

• You can change an existing calendar's settings at any time by clicking the blue Settings button above the calendar or the down arrow to the right of the calendar name to open a context menu.

  

  Calendar context menu

• Depending upon the options enabled for your account, you might see sections in the Calendar Settings form that are not described here. For example, if you're using paid registration, you see a Paid Event Registration section where you can select the calendar's payment gateway.

  I'd like to know more about paid registration.

To rename and set up the default calendar

1. Click the blue Settings button above the default calendar.
2. In the Calendar Settings form, for Calendar name, replace the default name with a more appropriate one.

   Tip You can keep your calendar names shorter by leaving off the unnecessary word calendar. For example, you might name a calendar Community Events rather than Community Events Calendar.

3. For help with Calendar Name, Event Templates, Relationship to Other Calendars, Display Options, and Usage Information settings, click the green buttons () and Learn more... links in the form.
4. In the Default Event Settings section, you have the opportunity to set default behaviors that will save time for event creators.

   Default registration form This option is relevant only when some or all events you add to the calendar will require registration. To learn more, click the green button ().

   I'd like to know more about event registration.

   Default all day If most of the events on this calendar will be all-day events, select Yes. That will save event creators from having to select the all-day option with almost every event they create. Otherwise, leave No selected.

5. When you're finished setting up the calendar, click OK.

To create and set up a new calendar (or sub-calendar)

1. Find the Calendar Tasks list to the left of the open calendar. Click Create a new calendar.

   

2. In the Create a New Calendar form, for Calendar name, type a name for the calendar.

   Tip You can keep your calendar names shorter by leaving off the unnecessary word calendar. For example, you might name a calendar Community Events rather than Community Events Calendar.

3. For help with Calendar Name, Event Templates, Relationship to Other Calendars, and Display Options settings, click the green buttons () and Learn more... links in the form.
4. If you see a Mix In to Publications section, it means that you have published one or more of the calendars in your account. Those published calendars (publications) are listed here.

   If you want events you add to this new calendar to appear on one or more of the published calendars, select the calendar name(s).

   What does it mean to mix a calendar into a publication?

5. In the Default Event Settings section, you have the opportunity to set default behaviors that will save time for event creators.

   Default registration form This option is relevant only when some or all events you add to the calendar will require registration. To learn more, click the green button ().

   I'd like to know more about event registration.

   Default all day If most of the events on this calendar will be all-day events, select Yes. That will save event creators from having to select the all-day option with almost every event they create. Otherwise, leave No selected.

6. When you're finished setting up the calendar, click OK.

   The calendar you just created becomes the active calendar, ready for you to add events.