RSEvents! - Adding an event through the administration side

This tab displays a list of all defined categories, offering the possibility of adding, editing or deleting. Categories can be used to organize events in front-end, thus making them easier to manage. By default, a category enables an "alias" option that is used for SEF link generation.

The Add/Edit event screen will let you create or edit an event. Adding an event is divided into 5 tabs,thus, making it easier to manage. The tabs are:

• Event info
• Description
• Registration
• Files
• Extras

Event Info

Here, you can set up general event information, such as Event title, Event subtitle, who's hosting the event and where, what category is the event in, who's the owner and what are the start and end dates. You can also set up here organizer contact information, such as website, phone, e-mail, event keywords and event meta description. This information will be shown on the Event page (in front-end).

Description

This is a WYSIWYG html editor where you can add the description of the event. You can add photos, links and event description. The event description will be shown on the event page (front-end). An interesting feature is that content plugins (plugins that are designed to work for the standard Joomla! articles) can be triggered within the RSEvents! event description area.

Registration

The Registration tab provides a set of advanced settings for the event you are organizing. Here you can set the event to Private or Public. Setting the event as Private, will generate a unique link that you can send to the participants. There is no other way of accessing or seeing the private events in front-end. Also, in the Options tab you can specify if you want to enable subscription to the event. Enabling the Registration option, you'll get to manage the ticket types. (see Ticket manager description ) along with the payment methods that you wish to make available for a particular event (you can select multiple, by pressing the CTRL button). The Show guests that registered option (when set to On) will display the list of registered users in the front-end. Additionally Automatically approve users can be enabled. This is particulary usefull if you are using events that offer free tickets.

Discounts can be provided depending on when the registration occurs: before or after a deadline. The deadline can be set in the Early booking discount deadline and Late booking fee date fields. Of course, the discounts can be set to a fixed or variable amounts (percentage) in both cases.

Furthermore, in the Registration tab, if you have enabled the Components > Settings > Payments > Allow users to sell their own tickets through PayPal you can also set up a Paypal Email. This email will be used for receiving the payments for event subscription. If the above setting is not enabled the payment will be made to the configured email address from within the RSEvents! PayPal plugin. Via Paypal Return URL one is able to control the redirect URL after the payment has been completed successfully.

The subscription period can be controlled separately. From example, you can publish an event, but not allow event registration until a specific date. For this purpouse, the Start registration on and End registration on, have been added.

The Enable subscription notifications option, will automatically send out a email notification to the event owner, whenver a event subscription is being made. The actual message can be customized from the RSEvents! front-end language file: language/en-GB/en-GB.com_rsevents.ini (RSE_NEW_SUBSCRIPTION_NOTIFICATION_BODY label).

The subscription form has increased its flexibility by exentding it with forms created via RSform!Pro. Basically you can replace the standard registration form with a form built in RSform!Pro. Further details on how to add such forms can be found on the RSEvents - RSform!Pro plugin page.

Files

Through the Files tab, the event specific files can be accessed and set specific properties. The files can be configured individually to show up before, during and after the event and they can be available for everyone, or only for event subscribers. This type of organizing is really useful when you want your subscribers to have access to a ticket PDF for example, or to various documentations.

Extras

RSEvents! helps you create web 2.0 ready events integrating with Youtube, Flickr, flash widgets and more.

• Flash - Allow users to post flash widgets on their event page
• Youtube - Allow users to add Youtube videos on their event page
• Mp3(Imeem) - Allow users to have a player with music from Imeem.com
• Meebo chatrooms - Allow users to create chat rooms on the event page
• Flickr - Allow users to add Flickr photo albums