Making the Most of Your Online Calendar

Your netAdventist site comes with an easy-to-use online calendar. Your calendar event entries can be added and edited under the Website pages tab by selecting the Calendar link in the navigation menu (a quick link for adding an event is also available on the main page of your Dashboard). In addition, members of your site can submit events through the front-end of your site, however, their submissions will not appear live until approved by a site administrator.

You will need to add your calendar to your main menu or place an events widget on your home page for people to access it. Visitors to your site have the option of viewing your events in either a listing format or a calendar format. To view the complete details of an event, visitors only need to select the event from the calendar. Visitors can also subscribe to your site calendar via an RSS feed or iCal subscription.  

You do have the option of adding events from other calendars to your own site calendar as well. These can be calendars from other netAdventist sites or outside iCalendar subscriptions. Events from other online calendars will display on the front-end of your site in a different color from your own events. Your events will always display in black. You can add as many different calendars as you want to your master calendar.

Site Basics: Privileges & Sharing Options

Throughout your Dashboard you have the option of setting privileges and sharing options for your content. This enables you to manage who can view your content and whether you want to share your content with others. Listed below are the Privileges and Sharing options you will see for almost all content you enter.

• Who can view this page?
  Choosing a level other than Anyone means only those who log into your site and have a matching access level can view the content. When adding new content, netAdventist will automatically default to Anyone, which means you will need to manually change it if you wish to restrict access to a particular group of users.

• Which user access groups can view this page?
  This is where the custom access groups you create will appear (found under your User Admin tab). Only users with the selected custom access group applied to their account will be able to view this content.

• Share this page with other sites?
  Select Do not share if you do not want other netAdventist sites to access and display your content on their own site. These other sites cannot edit your content, only display it.

How do I access the data from submitted online forms?
netAdventist automatically collects the data from submitted online forms in your Dashboard. You can easily retrieve it by following the steps below.

1. Click on the Website pages tab and select Forms from the navigation menu.
2. Click on the folder, Published or Draft, that your form is saved under.
3. Select your form from the list.
4. To download all of the form data as a group, click the Download link. This will save a CSV file on your computer, which can be opened in Excel or a similar program.
5. To view individual form submissions, click on the number next to the Download link. The number represents how many forms have been received. Select a name from the list to view that individuals form data or to view their payment processing status. Click View submission for a more detailed look or to print their data.
   

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Publisher: Office of Global Technology & Software, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Director: John Beckett
Editor: Nicole M. Batten