Automated Events are used to showcase upcoming events on landing pages. Automated events will display events with their titles, images and dates in a scrolling carousel.
On this page
Before you start
- Automated events can only be added to landing pages, not standard pages.
- Check the Tags that have been applied to the events that you want to display in your Automated events. You need at least 4 events with the same tag for the Automated events component to display.
- The Automated events component won't display if there are fewer than 4 events that include the tags you have selected.
- Automated events has a layout designed for a images to show with the events. For an image to display, you'll need to have a media item attached to your event.
Using Automated events
Do
- Use Automated events as a visual feature on landing pages.
- Continue to monitor that the correct events are being populated over time.
- Use appropriate images in events that will feature in the Automated events component.
Don't
- Add Automated events to a page if you're not regularly publishing lots of events. The component will stop displaying if there aren't at least 4 events.
How to add Automated events to your landing page
Go to:
- The Layout screen and click Add block.
- Select + Create content block and click on Automated events. The Configure block screen will open.
- Select how you want your events to be filtered – by Topic, by Agency or both. When you start typing in 1 of the fields, a dropdown of options will appear for you to select from. These filter options come from the Tag fields in the events template. How you have tagged your individual events will provide the tags that are available for you to use in the Automated events component.
- Click the Add block button.
A H2 heading titled 'Upcoming events' will automatically be shown above your Automated events component.
Further Guidelines
- The events shown can be filtered by Topic, Agency or both.
- Event listings must first be tagged accordingly for the Tag to appear and available for selection.
- The Type dropdown can be used as a link for further information. This can be a Content page, Managed Link, or a Media item
See this on a live page
Check out Automated Events of the CMS Components Guide to see how this works on a live page.
You can also see a live agency example on the Visiting and exploring NSW page.
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