By The NAF on Sunday, 13 March 2016
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Hi guys

1. I've created and featured an event on my site. While featuring a blog post is successfully creating a stream update, I also would like events to do the same (and create a notification for anyone subscribed to the event).

2. Featured events appear twice in my event listing, both at the top in the featured section and in the bottom in unfeatured. If I turn off the inclusion of featured events in the bottom section then the order is disrupted, and featured events in the past are included in the top section. How do I stop the top section of featured events showing please?

3. Is it possible to see a "featured" logo or icon or some other way of recognising when an event is featured from within the event view? At the moment, when viewing a featured event, there is nothing at all to show that it's been featured (in contrast to the little star icon that appears in the header on featured blogs).

4. How do I set the default event view to Featured events?

Thanks for any and all help!

Thank you!
Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. Please find my response to your inquiries below:


1. I've created and featured an event on my site. While featuring a blog post is successfully creating a stream update, I also would like events to do the same (and create a notification for anyone subscribed to the event).

When an event is featured, it will actually be added on the stream but it will not notify users who are attending the event. To display these "featured" activity for events, edit the Event app and ensure that the "Featured event" is enabled as shown in my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/yRxtdfVnD


2. Featured events appear twice in my event listing, both at the top in the featured section and in the bottom in unfeatured. If I turn off the inclusion of featured events in the bottom section then the order is disrupted, and featured events in the past are included in the top section. How do I stop the top section of featured events showing please?

This cannot be turned off currently but if you want to remove the "featured" events from showing up at the top, edit the file /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/events/default.list.php and remove the codes at line 59


<?php if (!empty($featuredEvents)) { ?>
<div class="media-featured <?php echo !$featuredEvents ? 'is-empty' : '';?>">
<ul class="list-media">
<?php foreach ($featuredEvents as $event){ ?>
<li class="is-featured"
data-id="<?php echo $event->id;?>"
data-events-item-featured
data-events-item
data-events-item-id="<?php echo $event->id;?>"
data-events-item-type="<?php echo $event->isOpen() ? 'open' : 'closed';?>"
>
<?php echo $this->loadTemplate('site/events/default.item', array('event' => $event, 'owner' => $event->getOwner(), 'guest' => $event->getGuest($this->my->id), 'guestApp' => $guestApp)); ?>
</li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php } ?>



3. Is it possible to see a "featured" logo or icon or some other way of recognising when an event is featured from within the event view? At the moment, when viewing a featured event, there is nothing at all to show that it's been featured (in contrast to the little star icon that appears in the header on featured blogs).

The star icon is the featured indicator


4. How do I set the default event view to Featured events?

Unfortunately right now this isn't possible.
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Sunday, 13 March 2016 17:27
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Brilliant, thanks Mark.

I'll try the code change (thank you!) and the Featuring process now appears in the feed, thanks for that!

On the star front... there's no star on featured events, only on featured blogs. Is there any way to add a logo to the header of featured events in the same way, just something to make it really obvious? At the mo they're indistinguishable to the non-featured events when you're viewing them! Is there supposed to be a star?

Thanks again!
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Monday, 14 March 2016 15:43
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Hi there,

I am sorry for the inconvenience caused. Regarding your inquiry, this is not yet availabe and it is quite difficult to do. By the way, if this a priority, please do post them on our sales section at https://crm.stackideas.com and our sales department would get back to you with a proper quote.
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Monday, 14 March 2016 19:58
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