Events

The editor is the page

An event in Studio is not a form beside a preview. It is the event page itself, and you change a part of it by clicking that part. The title you click is the title people will read; when you are done, there is nothing to translate in your head between the two.

Four states, and what each one means

• draft is yours alone. Nobody else can open it, it is not listed anywhere, and it does not appear in search. Work in it for as long as you like.
• unlisted is reachable by anyone holding the link, but Venued never puts it in a feed, a listing or a search result. This is the state for a private party, a soft launch, or a test.
• public is the ordinary published state: listed, searchable, and eligible to be recommended.
• cancelled keeps the page alive and says clearly that the event is off. It is not a delete, on purpose: people who bought a ticket or made plans need somewhere to land.

Moving a draft to any state people can see is a one-way step. A published event can be cancelled, but it cannot quietly become a draft again, because by then somebody may already be holding a link to it.

Where it happens

An event has one location, chosen from venues Venued already knows or added by you. Picking a venue that is on Venued links the two: the event shows up on the venue’s own page, and the venue’s details fill themselves in.

An event with no physical location is online, which is a real answer rather than a missing one.

Repeating events

An event that happens again is a series. Each occurrence is its own event with its own date, tickets and door, and they are grouped so that somebody browsing sees the thing rather than twelve copies of it.