Glossary for EMS Master Calendar

Term

Definition

Event Title

The title or name of the event.

Title 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.

Calendars

A list of all active calendars that are currently in your EMS Master Calendar system. Click the Lookup icon to open the Calendars dialog and select the calendars to which you want to post events.

Event Type

field of all currently active event types in your EMS Master Calendar system.

Priority

field. 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 in the calendar date cell in the Calendar view. The order is:

  • High Priority – All Day Event, Untimed Event, Timed Event
  • Medium Priority – All Day Event, Untimed Event, Timed Event
  • Low priority – 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 appearing for the event, select Hide.

Contact Phone

The phone number for the contact person for the event.

If you do not want this information appearing for the event, select Hide.

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 a dropdown list of locations and make a selection from this list.

Location URL

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

Event Description

A text description of the event. The event description appears on the calendar 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.

User Types

  • Standard – This is the default value for a user type. You must manually apply permissions for this type of user.
  • Template – This type of user is available only if you have active templates defined in EMS Master Calendar. (See Also: Configure User Templates)

    If you select this type of user:

    • The Permissions tab is initially removed from the page.
    • A Template dropdown list opens. You use this list to select the correct template for the user’s permissions.
    • Optionally, if you want to add permissions for the user in addition to the ones that are defined by the selected template, select Add additional permissions to template user to make the Permissions tab available again.
  • Administrator – This type of user has full access to all calendars in Master Calendar as well as to all system areas and functions.