{"id":9387,"date":"2025-03-28T11:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leogeracademy.hestia.wpspace.me\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9387"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:05:37","password":"","slug":"13-how-to-create-a-calendar","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/create-administer-calendars\/13-how-to-create-a-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Open calendar module<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"44\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-346.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-346.png 340w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-346-300x39.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Select category<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can choose to create either a new church, group or personal calendar.<br>Find out more about the differences between those calendar types <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/basics-calendar\/13-what-different-types-of-calendars-exist\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9406\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Add calendar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the <strong>&#8220;+&#8221;-icon next to the category<\/strong> where you&#8217;d like to add a calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-349.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-349.png 340w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-349-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Fill in information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The required information varies slightly depending on the category you&#8217;ve chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Church Calendar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can choose to only have the calendar linked to one <strong>campus<\/strong> (1) and pre-select an <strong>event template<\/strong> (2) that is to be used when entering new dates in this calendar to automatically create a linked event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-347.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-347.png 340w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-347-166x300.png 166w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-347-283x512.png 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group Calendar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can choose a <strong>group<\/strong> to which the calendar should be linked and select whether or not the members of that group should have <strong>write access<\/strong> (2). Like for a church calendar you can choose a <strong>campus<\/strong> (3) pre-select an <strong>event template<\/strong> (4) as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-348.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-348.png 340w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-348-154x300.png 154w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-348-263x512.png 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Calendar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-349.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-349.png 340w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-349-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#22c55e;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#dcfce7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">You can import external calendars into church and personal calendars using iCal-Links. Find out more on how to do that in our <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/create-administer-calendars\/13-how-to-import-an-external-calendar-into-churchtools\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9398\">guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Sort Order<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You have the option to manually sort your calendars by assigning numbers from 0 onwards. These will be taken into account first when ChurchTools automatically sorts your calendars. If multiple calendars have the same number assigned ChurchTools will sort those calendars alphabetically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Open calendar module 2. Select category You can choose to create either a new church, group or personal calendar.Find out more about the differences between those calendar types here. 3. Add calendar Click on the &#8220;+&#8221;-icon next to the category where you&#8217;d like to add a calendar. 4. Fill in information The required information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[471],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[224],"class_list":["post-9387","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-create-administer-calendars","knowledge_base-churchtools-modules"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":186,"total_views":"848","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Jasper Stehmeier","author_nicename":"jstehmeier","author_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/jstehmeier\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Create\/Administer Calendars","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/create-administer-calendars\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/","term_slug":"churchtools-modules"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["churchtools-modules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16192,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9387\/revisions\/16192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}