General Info Fields

Only the event title, date, and time are displayed on the calendar entry and on the Event Details page. You can display the event contact name, event contact phone number, and event contact email on the Event Details page, or you can hide this information. All other event information (images, email addresses, and so on) is always displayed on the Event Details page. Click Preview at any time to preview the information that is to be displayed for the event.

To set a recurring event, use the Recurrence date.

Field

Description

Event Title

The title or name of the event.

Event URL

The URL (website address) for the event’s web page.

Post Date

The date that the event is to be posted to the selected calendar or calendars. The default value is the current day’s date.

Event Type

List of all active event types in Master Calendar.

Priority

Available values are High, Medium, and Low. In conjunction with the event time (All Day, Untimed, Times), this variable determines where the event appears in a calendar display—at the top in a List view or at the top of the calendar date cell in the Calendar view. For any priority, the order is All Day Event, Untimed Event, Timed Event.

Contact Name

The name of the contact person for the event.

If you do not want this information displayed on the Event Details page, make sure that Hide is selected.

Contact Email

The email for the contact person for the event.

If you do not want this information displayed on the Event Details page, make sure that Hide is selected.

Contact Phone

The phone number for the contact person for the event.

If you do not want this information displayed on the Event Details page, make sure that Hide is selected.

Location

The location where the event is to take place. You can manually enter a location, or you can click the Lookup icon to open the Locations dialog and select a location from a Locations dropdown list.

The Locations dialog also contains an optional Sub-Locations list that is labeled in a way that best meets your organization’s needs (for example, Rooms or Fields). If you want to specify both a location and a sub-location for the event, then you must use the Lookup function.

Location URL

The URL (website address) for the location’s web page.

Department

The department that is hosting or sponsoring the event.

Department is a default label. Depending on how your Master Calendar site administrator has configured Master Calendar, you might see this labeled as something else, such as “Business Units” for example.

Event Description

A text description of the event. The event description is displayed in the Event Details Summary dialog when a guest or user places their mouse pointer on the event title in the calendar or on the Event Details page when a guest or user clicks on the event name for more information about the event. After you enter a description, you can select the text and then use the standard Window formatting icons (color, text size, text weight, and so on) that are above the Event Description field to customize the formatting of the text.

Add Image

Click Browse to open the Choose File dialog for browsing to and selecting an image that is to be associated with the event.