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PUBLICIZING EVENT INFORMATION WISELY

Jason Shank

EMS Software | Director of Professional Services

September 12-14, 2016

A Tour of Master Calendar Sites

• Master Calendar Site Tour

• Getting the most out of Master Calendar• Advanced Configuration

• Integrated Authentication

• Integration with EMS & Organizational Websites

Agenda

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Tour

Tour of Sites

• Weber State University

• University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

• Brigham Young University – Idaho

• Salt Lake Country Library Services

• Baldwin Wallace University

• University of Rochester

• California State University, Sacramento

• Davidson College

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Getting the Most Out of

Your Master Calendar

Tips & Tricks: Displaying Details

• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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• Featured Events

• Event Type Views

• Event Type Icons

• Custom Hints

• UDQs

• HTML

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Tips & Tricks: Site Branding

Branding Your Site

• Theme Roller

• Replace Banner Image

• Determine Color Scheme

• Define Default Calendar

• Activate Filters / Position Menu

• Event Type Color Coding

• Custom CSS

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Branding Your Site

• Theme Roller

• Event Type Color Coding

• Custom CSS

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Branding your site

• Theme Roller

• Event Type Color Coding

• Custom CSS

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Tips & Tricks: User Authentication

Integrated Authentication

• Public Calendars vs Private Calendars

• MC Integrated Authentication Module

• LDAP security groups to grant access to calendars

• Single Sign On (SSO) via portal authentication

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Tips & Tricks: Integrating

Integrating with EMS & Organizational Sites

• Data Connectors

• Calendar URLs

• RSS Feeds

• XML Feeds – Master Calendar API

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Calendar URLs

• Custom calendar links that can be shared on other

sites

• Ability to remove header and filters

• Examples includes departmental events, location

specific calendars, etc.

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Calendar URLs

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RSS Feeds

• Customers can subscribe to RSS feeds

• Use RSS feeds to populate events on home pages

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Master Calendar API

• Additional component that is available to those users

who are comfortable with API calls and XML

• Can be leveraged to extract event information from

Master Calendar in an XML format for integrations or

inclusion on websites and other sources that accept

XML

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Questions?

PUBLICIZING EVENT INFORMATION WISELY

Jason Shank

EMS Software | Director of Professional Services

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