Edit your event items or add new ones from this screen.
Edit your event items or add new ones from this screen.
Tip
Use Plugins to add additional functionality to JEM. For example, you can use the 'JEM Comments' Plugin to show user comments for your events and enhance the social part of your website.
To access this screen use: Components → JEM → Add Event or by clicking an event in the overview
Save: Saves the event and remains in the current view.
Save & Close: Saves the event and returns to the overview.
Save & New: Saves the event and opens a new empty Event edit screen.
Save as Copy:
Saves the event as a new instance and returns to the overview. If you have changed the name of the event,
please keep in mind to change the name of the alias too. If you just clear the contents of the Alias field before saving,
JEM will create an alias name by itself, based on the Event title
Close: Cancels this operation and returns to the Events list.
If a an event is part of a recurring set of events, there will be an icon above the Event / Attachemts / Permissions Tabs
indicates that an event is part of a set of recurring events.
indicates that an event is the first event of a set of recurring events.
Title: Enter or edit (if needed) the title of the Event here.
Alias: Enter or edit (if needed) the alias of the Event here. The alias is used in the url, only use url safe characters here. Leave this field blank if you want JEM to create it automatically.
Event date: Select the Event date. (required)
End date: Select the Date when the Event ends.
Time: The time when the Event starts.
End time: The time when the Event ends.
Category: Choose the category you want the item to belong to. The dropdown list will display the available Categories. Attention: It is possible to select multiple categoeries per event!
Venue: Choose the venue you want to associate with this event or set the value to no venue. If you want you can also add a new venue to the venue database by clicking the "add" button.
Contact: Select a contact from the contacts database.
Status: Select Yes to publish the event or No to unpublish. Published events are displayed on the Frontend.
Event status: Public status used for visitor messaging and structured data. Options are Scheduled, Cancelled, Postponed, Rescheduled and Moved online. Default: Scheduled. This is separate from Joomla publication status.
Availability: General ticket or booking availability used for visitor messaging and structured data. Options are Available, Preorder and Sold out. Default: Available.
Type: Assign an optional Event type. Only types configured for Events are shown. Default: no type.
Featured: Select Yes to mark the selected event as a featured event. In the Frontend, the featured event will be especially marked or highlighted to distinguish it from other events.
Associated article usage: Choose how this event uses a Joomla article. Select No associated article when the event does not need an article. Select Additional information when the article should be shown as a separate More Information link. Select Event content when the article should provide the event title, alias, description, metadata, or image according to the global Associated Articles settings.
Associated Article: Select an existing Joomla article or create one for this event. When the selected JEM category is configured to create associated articles automatically, JEM can create the Joomla article during save and place it in the linked Joomla category. If several selected JEM categories can create articles, choose the target Joomla category before saving.
Event Description: This is the Event description. You can use Joomla Plugins in this field.
In the Attachments Tab you can upload attachments for the event. When you upload a file in the backend (please mind the maximum upload size set by set by php) it will be visible at the event/venue-page. When the access is set to registered only registered people can see that file.
In this tab you can set permissions per event. Settings can be set to influence the event display (author, print icon etc.), to infuence the venue display (full description, address and venue links) and to influence the link to a community solution.
If you want to make global settings, use the JEM settings tab, via Components → JEM → Settings
Eventdate: Select the Eventdate. (required)
Enddate: Select the Date when the Event ends.
Time: The time when the Event starts.
Endtime: The time when the Event ends.
You can enter up to 10 custom fields here.
Here you can enter a maximum of 10 custom fields for an event.
Empty fields are not displayed in the frontend. You can give the fields specific names using language overrides.
If you want to do that, proceed as follows:
Go to Extensions → Languages → Overrides. Choose 'Administrator' in the select-box on the right hand sode of the screen.
The key for the event custom fields are COM_JEM_EVENT_CUSTOM_FIELD1 to COM_JEM_EVENT_CUSTOM_FIELD10.
If you want to use the language string for both backend and frontend, then don't forget to click the 'for both locations' checkbox.
Terminology
In JEM, registration means an event booking or attendance registration. It is not the same as Joomla user registration, which creates a user account on the website.
The registration options define whether visitors can book places for this event, when bookings open or close, whether users may cancel, how many places can be booked, and how waiting lists or invitations are handled.
Registration: Select if users should be able to register to this Event. The options are No, Yes or From date/time. Default: No.
Registration From: When Registration is set to From date/time, registrations open at this date and time. Default: now.
Registration Until: When Registration is set to From date/time, registrations close at this date and time.
Invited users only: Restricts registration to the invited users selected for the event. Default: No.
Registration Annulation: Select if users should be able to annulate their registration from this Event. The options are No, Yes or Until date/time. Default: No.
Annulation Until: When annulation is limited, users can unregister until this date and time.
Max Places: Enter the maximum capacity for the event. When there is no maximum, enter 0 for unlimited registrations.
Minimum / Maximum booked places per user: Controls how many places one user must or may book. Both fields default to 1.
Reserved Places: Places held back from normal booking. Default: 0.
Invited Users: Select users that may register when invited-only registration is enabled.
Booked Places: Displays the currently booked (registered) number of visitors to the event.
Waiting List: Check this box to enable the waiting list.
Request answer: Ask registered users to answer the attendance request. Default: No.
Series booking: Applies booking behavior to events in a recurrence series where supported. Default: No.
Single event booking: Applies booking behavior to this individual event where supported. Default: No.
Image: Choose an image for this Event (flyer) or upload it.
Choose the type of the recurrence: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or at a single weekday of the month. If you only want to create events until a certain date, set a 'By the end of' date. See the explanation in the remark below.
Attention
For all of the recurrence-options you can enter a 'By the end of' date. JEM will generate your
event for the repeating interval that you have chosen, until the end date, BUT it will never create
events that exceed the number of days ahead that you defined in the Settings → Global parameters → Advanced
Parameters → [Generate events up to (days).
This is called the 'Anticipation Window' (the number of days that JEM looks ahead) and is always leading.
Recurring events can be auto-generated by JEM for a shorter period ahead, but never for a longer period than defined there.
This is to protect busy websites with many event submissions by users from heavy database load.
Daily: Choose this if you want the event to repeat every X calendar days. You can choose from 1 (every day) till 14 days. Then set until what date JEM should create your recurring event.
Weekly: Choose this if you want the event to repeat every X weeks. You can choose from 1 (every week) till 8 weeks. Then set until what date JEM should create your recurring event.
Monthly: Choose this if you want the event to repeat every X months. You can choose from 1 (every month) till 12 months. Then set until what date JEM should create your recurring event.
Weekday:
Choose this if you want the event to repeat every 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc of the month.
You can also choose the 'last' or the 'before last'. Then set until what date JEM should create your recurring event.
Once again, please note that the anticipation window that you set in the Settings of JEM will always be leading when the end date is evaluated.
Metadata information:
Enter or edit (if needed) the Meta Description and the Meta Keywords of the event here.
You may use the suggestions in the settings to set default values which will be automatically set to the event data.
Show venue name, category, author, contact, hits, availability, print icon, email icon, iCal icon and details title: These event-specific options override the global settings when a value other than Use Global is selected. Most fields offer Use Global, Show and Hide.
Link category, author and contact: Controls whether the shown item is plain text or a link. These options are available when the matching show option is enabled.
Contact category and contact description: Controls extra contact information on the event detail page. Default: No.
Venue description and address: Event-level overrides for showing venue description and address. Default: Use Global.
Venue link: Options are Use Global, No Link, Link to URL or Link to Venue view.
Map service: Options are Use Global, No Map Service, Google map link, Google map display, Google map display with API, OpenStreetMap link or OpenStreetMap display.
Google map TLD and language: Optional Google map top-level domain and language code used when a Google map service is selected.
Attachments layout: Options are Use Global, row, full row, uniform row, column, full column or uniform column. Default: Use Global.
Attachment icon size: Options are Use Global, No icon, Normal, Medium or Large. Default: Use Global.
Attachment frame: Adds a visual frame around attachment output. Default: No.
Links layout: Controls how event links are arranged. Options include row, full row, uniform row, column, full column and uniform column. Default: row.
Links order: Controls the order of image, icon and text inside each link. Default: image, icon, text.
Event links: Add repeatable links with title, description, type, color, URL, target, frame, image and maximum image dimensions. Link target defaults to new tab, frame defaults to Yes, color defaults to #2f6f46, maximum image width defaults to 120 and maximum image height defaults to 60.