My forum uses the Calendar and Event plugin within a category. We would like to have to replace “+ New Topic” with “+ Create Event” that automatically opens a new topic with the template and the “Create event” window. This will help simplify the UI so people don’t have to go digging or read instructions of how to post an event.
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Welcome to the Discourse community!
You can use this theme component to change the New Topic text:
You can use Topic Templates to populate text automatically:
Automatically bringing up the Event window may require some custom work though.
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Thank you, Derek! I’ll keep an eye out for anyone who could do that custom work for $, I would love for it to be publically contritubed to the github as well
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This is an ideal use-case for the Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙.
Using the one plugin you can set up a Wizard to redirect the New Topic button, direct to a form / template to gather event info, and then automatically post an event topic in the correct place.
You should be able to do this with the free version without too much trouble. See this for the event topic posting bit:
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