It’s now much easier to create an events category in your community via the Discourse Calendar and Event plugin. We’ve streamlined the setup process and pulled all the important settings into one place to help you get setup in moments. This is part of the same category setup initiative that brought you easier support categories and ideas categories.
Note: On our hosting, Discourse Calendar and Events is available on the Business plan and above.
In this topic, we’ll review the major changes and share how you can start using this today.
What’s changed
When creating a new category, you’ll now see four types:
When you choose the Events category type, we’ll take care of the basics by enabling the Calendar enabled and Discourse post event enabled settings, and by making sure the category that’s being created is added to the Events calendar categories setting. A few other details to note:
- On the General tab, the Category name and Style fields are automatically configured
- On the Events tab, you can fine tune the category with controls for default calendar view, which groups can create events, and more. We’ve established defaults here based on what we’ve seen work well in other communities, but you can always change them to fit your use case.
Turning on events type category setup in your community
For now, this is considered an experimental change! We’re welcoming your feedback, which will help us make improvements and roll this out further.
To turn this on, head to the Upcoming changes page in your admin area (/admin/config/upcoming-changes) and find the Enable events category type setup item. Update the Enabled for… field to opt your site in to this new design:
What do you think?
Over to you: we’d love to hear what you think of this new feature. What do you like and dislike; what is working well, and what could be improved?