Create and publish¶
This section takes an event from nothing to a page the outside world can open. It starts in the event wizard — four steps that create a draft — covers the fields the first step insists on, and ends with publishing that draft and sharing the page it produces.
Nothing here has to be finished in one sitting. A new event is created as a draft, so it stays yours while it is incomplete: in the event listings, only you, the event's moderators and the managers of the organizing company can see it. Leave a field out and you can add it later from Edit event content, or come back here and carry on.
Two things are worth knowing before you start. The package decides what the wizard asks for and what it costs, and a package with a price has to be paid for before the event can go live. The Privacy switch decides who the event is offered to while people browse — worth deciding before you publish rather than after.
The tasks¶
| Topic | What it covers |
|---|---|
| New event: the four creation steps | The two ways into the wizard, the Basics, Details, Program and Review steps, moving between them, and the unsaved-changes warning. |
| Dates, timezone and location | The four required fields of Basics: start and end date and time, the timezone, and picking a location from the suggestions. |
| Event visibility | The Privacy switch, and who can actually reach a Public event and a Private one. |
| Draft, review and publication | The pre-publish checklist, the four things that really block publishing, Finish later, and publishing from the event page or the events list. |
| The public event page and sharing | What a published event shows to a visitor, and the Share Event control that hands out its link. |