Every event has an event detail view, to which you can provide a direct link. You can customize one event detail view for the main calendar spud and one for the mobile calendar spud.
You refine the styles and behavior of event detail views in the Publishing Control Panel, independently of the main and mobile calendar view settings.
This topic includes:
Tip If you're trying to troubleshoot this event detail page error message, "Sorry, you may not have permission to view that event or it may have been deleted," see Troubleshoot an event detail error.
For both main calendar and mobile detail views, you have two view options: Classic and Enhanced. In most cases, it makes sense to go with the Enhanced view, which gives you more control over the layout of the event elements.
In the Main Calendar Spud section, under Event Detail View, click Switch Detail Views.
Or, in the Mobile Main Calendar Spud section, under Mobile Calendar Detail View, click Switch Mobile Detail Views.
Tips
In mobile detail views, however, you may want to hide custom field labels, hide map thumbnails and inline images, set the maximum dismensions for detail images (if you use them), and provide only the post to Facebook and Twitter event actions.
Tip As you make changes to settings and styles, at the bottom of the form, click Preview, and then click an event title to see how your changes affect the detail view. If you're customizing a mobile detail view, it's a good idea to preview the detail views on your own mobile devices.
You can provide access to an event detail page by sharing the URL for the page directly with your target audience.
This URL is a permanent link (or "permalink") to the page, bypassing the main calendar. You can copy or bookmark the URL, and then share it as appropriate.
Note This URL only works in social media posts (to link to your events) if you use the Trumba hosted view calendar to share your events.
There are two other methods for providing links to event detail pages:
When you click Permalink, the event detail URL appears in a popup window:
The link you paste into a webpage will look something like this:
<a href="https://www.trumba.com/t.aspx?e=CgDl72T8OP0ZqWNOrFy2ObFgIYpNKEVvFgZTayDSmyJU5x*upQQH5-bEEsPrOz106WAna8oGhsGjOM57JIhvbegV7pZWs8TMggAelZzcNA0fXDeGTTdiIEYthXccdbZSyAE!X&trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D132545993">Don't miss this event!</a>
Clicking the icon opens the QR Code window where you can copy a link to the event detail view (Address) and/or download a QR code image file.
Tip Event detail links remain valid until you delete the event from (or unpublish) your calendar.
Do other views have permalinks?
Can I create my own URLs to filtered views, search results, and more?
Each section of the Edit Settings for Event Detail form is described in detail below.
Click a link below to go directly to a specific section.
Select Table to arrange the labels and event information in separate columns and prevent the event information from wrapping around images.
Select List to keep labels and event information together and allow event information to wrap.
If you select Yes, and you also set Show field labels to Yes, you can display the event template name along with a label.
(With "Event type" as the Event template label, for example, you could have something like: Event type, and then the template name.)
For example, you might want to replace Link with More Information. Or, if your Location or Where field shows the name of an establishment instead of an address, you can change the label to something like Venue.
If you select Yes, and you also set Show field labels to Yes, you can display the written out repeating pattern along with a label.
(With "Repeats" as the Repeats label, for example, you could have something like: "Repeats Every day starting April 6, 2021 through May 6, 2021.")
Tip If you turn on open registration for an event and you include sign-up and other registration status buttons in the event detail view, the buttons always appear just above the Description field. This button position holds whether you place notes above or below the other fields.
Most of these options are straightforward choices for the format in which the date and time display.
Tip Shorter date, day, and time formats typically work better with compact calendar and mobile event detail views.
An ongoing multi-day event labeled in detail view
If you have created list of choices custom fields that include icons, you can display those icons in the event detail view.
How do I add icons to list of choices custom fields?
Icons in event detail view next to the event title (1) and "Categories" custom field values (2).
| Event Detail view | Event Detail - Enhanced view |
|---|---|
 |
 |
Automatic follows a set of rules based on the image dimensions. If the image is less than 150px wide or tall, it is placed on the left side. If the image width is 150px or wider, but the height is less than 150px, the image is placed at the top. If both the width and height are greater than or equal to 150px, the image is placed on the right side.
While maximum width is often the more important parameter to set, if some of your images are tall and skinny, you may want to set a maximum height as well.
Tip For mobile detail view, we recommend image widths of 200 pixels or less so the maximum width is set, by default, to 200 pixels.
These settings apply only if you use map links for event locations.
How do I add map links to events?
Most of these options are straightforward choices for the size of the map image and the zoom controls, the style of the map, and the label for the link to the full map, which appears below the image in detail view.
Tip For mobile detail view, the default map width and height settings are 200 pixels by 100 pixels.
| Event Detail view | Event Detail - Enhanced view |
|---|---|
 |
 |
By default, the map image appears inline on the right. If your events also include event images, it's a good idea to set the map image to appear at the bottom of the view.
Tip The map thumbnail looks best at the bottom of the view if you extend the thumbnail width. For example, you might want to increase the map thumbnail width to 400 or 500 pixels so it stretches across the view.
See Detail Image above for more information about event image settings.
Note If you choose not to display the map image, the location field in detail view still contains a link to the map.
If you have enabled registration for some events, you can set registration sign-up images to show up in event detail views.
Tip This section covers using assigned images for the sign-up controls (sign up, wait list, closed, and full buttons). This may make sense if you'd prefer to use your own custom images (to tailor the button style to the style of the individual event detail views).
Note that if you've chosen to use images, you can either use the common, built-in images that are provided by default, or your own custom images.
For information about using global sign-up buttons instead, which apply automatically wherever the buttons are displayed, see: Sign-up Buttons tab.
IMPORTANT If you select Buttons rather than Images on the global Sign-up Buttons tab (in the Main Calendar Spud settings), the event registration buttons are managed there, and not within the Event Detail spud itself. In this case, the following section doesn't appear (on the Settings tab on the Edit Settings for Event Detail page):
Adding sign-up buttons to event detail views has no effect on the sign-up links/indicators in the detail view footer. If you display event actions in the footer, the sign-up links (Sign Up and Wait List) and status indicators (Event Is Full and Sign Up Closed) automatically appear.
Footer options give you the opportunity to choose which social media and event actions options are available at the bottom of event detail views (including the mobile detail view).
Select Yes for the Show ... options that you want to display at the bottom of the detail views.
For example, if you select Yes for the Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn options, icons for those social media services appear at the bottom left of the detail views.
Definitions: Permalink and QR code:
Clicking the QR code icon in the bottom right corner of detail view opens a window where you or calendar visitors can download a QR code image file for use online or in printed materials. People who scan the code go directly to the event detail view in a browser.
Tip By default, for events with open registration, the Sign Up or Wait List link (or the Event Is Full or Sign Up Closed status indicator) appears in the footer. However, the Add to My Calendar link is hidden. This makes it less likely that visitors will add events to their calendars for which they have not registered. If you prefer, you can switch Show Add to Calendar and Sign Up to Yes.
Detail view footer with all options enabled. Add to My Calendar is hidden because visitors must register to attend the event.
I'd like to know more about the open registration buttons/links and status indicators.
Tell me more about using and customizing the Facebook plugin
