# Selecting the "everyone" group in the allowed\_on\_groups setting does not enable event creation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-the-everyone-group-in-the-allowed-on-groups-setting-does-not-enable-event-creation/279434
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [September 18, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-the-everyone-group-in-the-allowed-on-groups-setting-does-not-enable-event-creation/279434 "2023-09-18T19:51:52Z")
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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-the-everyone-group-in-the-allowed-on-groups-setting-does-not-enable-event-creation/279434/6 "2025-03-28T23:35:19Z")

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This has cropped up again:

> [@Calendar broken after 3.5.0.beta2 upgrade](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calendar-broken-after-3-5-0-beta2-upgrade/358909/9):
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> “everyone” is a little unusual because it’s not a “real” group. It requires plugins to have special handling, which may not have been done here.

I think that this will trip up most people who use this plugin, unless they know that little trick about “everyone”; perhaps simply hiding the “everyone” option from the options would be a quick way to fix this.

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