# Discourse Calendar - How to?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar-how-to/165536
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [September 27, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar-how-to/165536 "2020-09-27T14:51:46Z")
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### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar-how-to/165536/2 "2020-09-27T15:17:36Z")

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Hi!  
Postid is to be found in the json and is the Id of the post where the calendar is declared (not the topic Id)

About the color coded events, I believe those come (for now 😅 ) from the plugin [events](https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776) (but I might have missed a commit!)

And maybe this can answer some of your questions:

> [@Creating and managing events](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-managing-events/149964/51):
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> If you just install the discourse-calendar plugin (and nothing else), there are three types of time-related items you can add to a Discourse composer, [event], [calendar] and [date]. The use cases for these, and how they interact, are getting a little muddled if you’re not already familiar with the plugins themselves and Discourse in general.
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> For example, the existing discourse-calendar plugin requires you to create [dates] in posts in the same topic as the [calendar]. This [event] feature set (which is in the same plugin), requires you to create [events], which are different from [dates], but also are added to a calendar that looks exactly the same as the topic-specific [calendar] which included the [dates], but acts quite differently

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