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Configuring the Max Events System It's actually quite possible to setup the Events Calendar with the default configuration. So it's suggested that you familiarize yourself with the Max Events pages and reading about the Login system and the calendar display, before coming back to configure the system. System Configuration. The system configuration is straight-forward. Here’s how you configure the Max Events system: The first few are all relatively straight-forward. Note the field called Your Events Calendar URL. It is significant because it is used to create URL's that are used by the system. For example, consider the email message that gets sent to the person who signs up to submit an event. In that email is a link that must be clicked to verify the sign-up. That verification URL is formed from this parameter. It is also used when images are uploaded. That's how the system knows where to find the 'uploaded' folder. Important: Please note that an ending slash MUST NOT BE present. Then comes "How many events per page when displayed in Events Manager?" On the Events Manager page, where all your events that you've entered are being displayed, this number represents how many events will appear per page. For example, if you have 60 events, you probably don't want all 60 events to appear on the page display. Thus, you can set this to a lower number (such as 20) and you'll only see 20 events per page. Each page will have a Next and Back "button" so you can view all the events. Next is "How many characters allowed in an event description?" This field represents the maximum length of descriptions allowed when entering an event. For example, 750 is the default. But this can be set as high (or low) as you like. If a description is entered that is longer than this number, an error is generated. And the event cannot be added until the length of the event description is shortened. Next is "How many days until expired events get deleted?" If an event is expired, this represents how many days to wait until the event is automatically deleted from the system. For example, if today is June 6th and the event was scheduled for June 5th, it sill gets shown if users select a date range including June 5th. However if this parameter is set to (say) 90, then it gets deleted about September 5th. If this is set to 0, events do NOT get automatically deleted. If set to 1, events get deleted the day after. Next on the Configuration page is Header HTML for events calendar pages. And Footer HTML for events calendar pages .This is the HTML code for the header on each events calendar page. It’s how you get the events calendar to match the appearance of the other pages on your website. (Or create a nice layout for the events, if the appearance is to be different.) Each of the system pages will have this header and a footer. In these two fields, you may enter the HTML code for the header and the footer. Note that all href= and all src= html tags must use absolute addressing, i.e., http://something/ Next, let's look at Starting the Max Events System.... |
