Understanding Event Moderation

How to Include or Remove Events from Your Community Calendar

Moderating events in a community calendar is essential for ensuring that the events listed are relevant, appropriate, and aligned with the calendar's purpose. This guide will walk you through the process of moderating events, giving you control over what appears on your community calendar. Proper moderation helps maintain the calendar's integrity and enhances the user experience.

Calendar Moderation Settings

You can adjust your calendar's moderation settings by going to Events > Event Calendars and clicking Manage to open the calendar settings. You will see 3 options for moderation:

• Approve All means all sourced events will automatically appear in your calendar.
• Queue Except Whitelist means all sourced events will be pending your approval before appearing in your calendar. Click the 'Whitelist' checkbox for each business included in the Source list to auto-approve only their event posts.
• Queue All means no sourced events will appear on your calendar until you manually approve them.

Once you've made the appropriate selection, be sure to scroll down to save the changes to your calendar settings.

Approving or Declining Events

Once your moderation settings are defined, you can start reviewing events as they are posted by going to Events > Event Calendars and clicking Manage to open the calendar settings.

In the Event Moderation section, you will see any events 'Pending' approval for the calendar. 

If there are no events 'pending' approval, you can click View All to see all sourced events.

Here you will see Approved and Declined events: 

If you want to remove an Approved event from your community calendar, simply click the Undo button next to the Approved status in the Manage column:

If you have declined an event that you later wish to Approve, simply click the Undo button next to the Declined status in the Manage column.

Moderating Event Categories

If you have event categories defined for your calendar, you can moderate and update which categories are assigned to any events appearing in your calendar.

The companies you've included in your calendar feed have the option to self-select the most relevant category for their event from your list of available event categories once they publish their event. 

To modify the category an event appears under, go to Event Moderation by navigating to Events > Event Calendars and selecting Manage to open the calendar settings.

In the Event Moderation section, click View All to see a list of all sourced events.

From here, you can adjust the category settings for any event on your calendar.

If you see a hazard icon next to the category option, this indicates that the event's original category doesn't match any existing categories in your calendar. Click on the icon to view the original category used by the event poster.

This is a helpful way to identify new categories you may want to add to your calendar!