Managing Community Event Submissions

Introduction

MC Trade provides a web page with a form where people can submit an event and, if approved, the event would appear on your calendar. When a the form is submitted, a notification is sent to the notification e-mail address which is defined in your Global Settings.

If you need to edit the notification email address, click on the Admin menu, Global Settings, and then the Email Address for Notifications tab. Look for Community Calendar Submission Notification.

In this article, we will cover how to review the details of a submitted event in case something needs to be changed before approving it, how to approve an event, and how to reject an event.

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Community Event Submissions

Click on the Events menu and then Community Event Submissions.

All community-submitted events will be listed below.

The list is sorted by event date, but you can reverse this by clicking on the header or click on a different header to sort by something else (event name or status).

You can filter the grid down to a specific date or date range using the From and To controls at the top.

There is also a checkbox next to these controls to Include processed requests.

• This will include requests that have already been approved or rejected.
• If you enable this, be sure to click Run This Search to refresh the grid.
• In addition to giving you the ability to go back and reference something in the past, this also gives you the ability to change it (i.e., approving a submission that was rejected or rejecting a submission that was approved).

There is also an option to Export submissions in the top right corner of the grid.

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Reviewing Event Details

Before approving, you may want to review the details, and fix something that is missing or incorrect.

1. Click on the Events menu and then Community Event Submissions.
2. In the grid, next to the event, click on the Actions button, and choose Review.

This will open a window that includes all of the submitted information and you can add, edit, or remove any of it before saving and approving.

If you fix something, notice the button label: Save and Approve This Event. This will save and approve, so if you change any of the information, but want to check on something else before you approve, click Cancel because canceling in this case will actually retain your changes.

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Approving a Submitted Event

Before approving, you may want to review the details, in case something is missing or incorrect.

1. Click on the Events menu and then Community Event Submissions.
2. In the grid, next to the event, click on the Actions button, and choose Approve.

As mentioned in the introduction, you can approve an event that was rejected. Place a check next to Include processed requests at the top and perform step 2. 

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Rejecting a Submitted Event

1. Click on the Events menu and then Community Event Submissions.
2. In the grid, next to the event, click on the Actions button, and choose Reject.

As mentioned in the introduction, you can reject an event that was approved. Place a check next to Include processed requests at the top and perform step 2.

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Deleting a Submitted Event

Exercise caution because this operation cannot be undone.

1. Click on the Events menu and then Community Event Submissions.
2. In the grid, next to the event, click on the Actions button, and choose Delete.

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