Events: Time-based publishing of important dates

No matter if it's the date for an event, fair, meeting or a delivery date - the dates you provide for your visitors have to be up-to-date and clearly structured. A very adaptable calendar facilitates the usage and a full-text search helps find important dates and events.

What is it?

• Time management with calendar function

What can it do?

• Providing information on dates and events in the Internet, Extranet and Intranet
• Capture and management of dates and additional information
• WYSIWYG to capture detailed event information
• Support for the implementation of series of dates according to rules
• Support of different categories
• Search across different areas
• Publication on different sites and over different time periods
• Search via date and event archive
• Different views, incl. calendar function
• Grouping according to categories
• Co-operation with different systems possible, e.g. Microsoft Exchange and Outlook (iCalendar)
• Changing language within the context
• Formatting of the date setting according to language and country via .NET Culture Tags
• Configuration of all elements entirely via templates
• Many setting possibilities to adjust to different individual cases of operation
• Works also in conjunction with other modules (e.g. related events, picture gallery)  

What can I do with it?

• Event calendar
• Trade fair information
• Overviews for meetings
• Business hours

What are the benefits?

• Fast provision of event dates
• Expected uniform usage of all event dates by the user on the web site

Description

No matter if it is the date for an event, fair, meeting or a delivery date: it is important to provide information on event dates in the Internet, Extranet, and the Intranet as simple and straightforward as possible. If these information are presented as unstructured text, the user cannot keep track. A qualified search, e.g. for categories or regions, is not possible. To assign such information to time periods (week, month, year) or other various forms of illustration with the help of categories or regions, e.g. via a colour code, is an important performance feature.
To avoid misunderstandings, it is especially important to present the date according to customary formats of specific languages and cultures.

Event information is often presented in connection with other contents such as contact or address information. Here it is important that this information will not be recorded twice, but that it can be assigned automatically. Information on events is seldom entered into the Content Management System. Hence, the co-operation with other systems is of great importance. Numerous additional information and a flexible templating, e.g. for differently grouped tables, allow using the module for many different purposes.