In TownCMS v5, we have improved how the Calendar of Events works by adding new functionality. This “HOW TO” was put together to help current municipal customers of ours see how it would work when upgrading to v5, and especially for any other town who is thinking of switching to Town Web Design.
In TownCMS v5, we have improved how the Calendar of Events works by adding new functionality. This "HOW TO" was put together to help current municipal customers of ours see how it would work when upgrading to v5, and especially for any other town who is thinking of switching to Town Web Design.
With the Calendar function you have the ability to select from a wide variety of methods for a recurring/repeating event. Here specific scenarios that work:
Below is a screen shot showing how the Date/Time Selection and the Recurring Events Selection looks in the Admin section. It is quite intuitive to understand an use.
Let us say your town has Garbage Pickup scheduled for Mondays, but in that year the Fourth of July lands on a Monday. Since it is a holiday, the town would not have the pickup scheduled on that Monday, and it would instead be pushed back to a Tuesday. With the Calendar of Events for your Town, you are able to click on the event on July 4th and edit just that specific event. This allows you to move it to a different day without affecting all other days in that series.
This is an idea that came from feedback from a couple of our municipal customers. They asked for the ability to have the Calendar show a link to a PDF agenda. We therefore set out to sync the site's Meeting Repository (where the minutes and agendas are stored), with the Calendar.You can see in the below screen shot an example of how this looks for one of our municipal customers. Each arrow points to an Agenda PDF that was uploaded through the site's Meeting Repository.