Your readers can submit Events to your site, which you can then review and decide to include in your calendars.
The link for User-submitted Events is displayed at the bottom of Event Calendar Sprockets.
You can choose whether to enable or hide this link in the Content Settings for your site under Admin > Settings > Content.
The submission form requires that the user select an Event Category from your list of Tag Categories to be included in the uploaded Event information.
NOTE: For the drop-down menu of Event Categories to display, you must have Event Categories in your system that are connected to an Event Search.
With this connection, Metro Publisher can distinguish Event Categories from other Tag Categories in your system. This ensures that only Event Categories are displayed in the User-submitted Events form.
The default text for successful Event submission on the User-submitted Events form can be customized under Admin > Settings > Default Texts.
NOTE: The user information gathered on the User-submitted Events Form constitutes personal information under the EU GDPR, and U.S. state-level data privacy laws may define it the same way. You have the option to change the default text to clearly state that users may contact you at any time and request their data be deleted.
In order to fully delete personal information submitted by users, the event that was submitted by the respective user must also be deleted. We recommend you add that information to the default text as well.
Approving User-submitted Events
When you first log in under go.metropublisher.com (i.e. your dashboard homepage of your worksite) you have shortcuts on the right. One of them is to the user submitted events waiting for approval.
You can approve User-submitted Events in your Events Center by clicking on the Events tab at the top of your window. All User submitted Events will be there in draft mode with the creator named "public_user". You can then double-click on each one to check and publish it.
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