Use feeds to sync events
When you want to see your Groups or Registration events in Calendar, it's helpful to create those events only once. Automate this process by using feeds to sync Groups or Registrations events into your Calendar!
Feeds recreate all of your current and future Groups or Registrations events so that they're available on Calendar. Once these events are in your Calendar, you can add rooms and resources to ensure your Group event or signup has everything needed.
Important
Only organization administrators can add, edit, or remove feeds in Calendar.
You can adjust the filters on your Events page to hide or display events from a specific product feed or a group type.
Should you use connections or feeds?
There are two ways to link Calendar events to other products: connections or feeds. Each feature links Calendar events to other products differently, so review this information before deciding which feature you want to incorporate into your workflow.
Connections allow you to link individual Calendar events with related pages in other products. This link does not automatically sync information between products, but it will enable you to navigate quickly between related pages. If you want to see everything in one place and manually link products together, Connections gives you the most flexibility.
Feeds automatically sync events by recreating your Registrations and Groups events in Calendar. This is a one-way sync; events created in Calendar can't be synced to either product. If you prefer automation and want all your Registrations and Groups events to automatically show up in Calendar, feeds are the way to go.
Check out the table below for a comparison of how each feature works:
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The best option for you depends on your workflow and how many events you typically need to link between products.
If you typically create events in Groups or Registrations first and need all of those events to appear in Calendar, feeds would be the best option for your workflow. This prevents you from having to re-enter duplicate information in Calendar after creating your Groups/Registration events.
If you typically create events in Calendar first and would prefer to link individual events to other products as needed, connections would work best.
Set up your feed
Add Groups feeds
You can enable the feed for all of your groups or only for specific group types.
Select the Events page from the top navigation in Calendar.
Select the ⚙️ settings icon in the top right.
Select Feeds from the left sidebar.
Choose the Groups feeds options from the left sidebar.
Select the Enable Groups feeds button.
Use the toggles in the top right corner of each group type to choose whether to sync that group type's events.
Adjust the default settings for each group type's feed events. These settings are automatically applied to any events created by that group type's feed.
Event owner: Select an event owner for all feed events created from this group type.
Calendar: If you have multiple calendars in your organization, choose which calendar this feed's events should belong to.
Church Center visibility: Choose whether this group type's feed events will be Published or Unpublished in Church Center.
Tags: Choose which tags to automatically apply to each group type's feed events.
Include group name in event name: Toggle this setting to choose whether to display the group name as part of the event name.
Add the Registrations feed
Select the Events page from the top navigation in Calendar.
Select the ⚙️ settings icon in the top right.
Select Feeds from the left sidebar.
Choose the Registrations feed option from the left sidebar.
Select the Set up Registrations feed button.
Adjust the default settings for your Registrations feed events:
Event Owner: Select a default event owner for all Registrations feed events. You must select an event owner before you can set up the feed.
Calendar: If you have multiple calendars in your organization, choose which calendar this feed's events should belong to.
Tags: Choose which tags to automatically apply to feed events.
Campus tag settings: If you have campus tags set up, you can toggle the Sync campus tags from Registrations setting. This automatically syncs your feed event's campus tags with the original Registration event's campus information.
Select the toggle in the top right corner to finish setting up the Registrations feed.
Manage feeds
You can manage your feed settings at any time!
Select the Events page from the top navigation in Calendar.
Select the ⚙️ settings icon in the top right.
Select Feeds from the left sidebar.
Choose either Groups feeds or Registrations feed from the left sidebar to open each feed's settings page.
Updates to your feed's settings on the corresponding page. Refer to the table below to see what you can manage for each feed type:
Feed type
What can I manage?
Groups
Enable or disable the feed
Change the event owner
Determine Church Center availability
Add or manage tags for the group type
Registrations
Change the event owner
Add or manage tags
Delete the feed
Toggle the Sync campus tags from Registrations setting on or off
Turning off the Sync campus tags setting after previously enabling it does not remove campus tags from existing events. However, campus tags are no longer automatically applied to future events created from the feed.
Updating a setting automatically saves your changes for the corresponding feed.
Remove feeds
You can remove feeds in the same place you manage them. The removal process is different for Groups and Registrations feeds.
Warning
Disabling a Groups or Registrations feed deletes all associated events from Calendar, including any attached rooms and resources . There is no way to recover feed events once they're deleted.
Remove Groups feeds
With Groups feeds, you can choose to either disable specific group types while maintaining others or remove them all.
Select the Events page from the top navigation in Calendar.
Select the ⚙️ settings icon in the top right.
Select Feeds from the left sidebar.
Choose the Groups feeds option from the left sidebar.
Use the toggles to disable individual group types and remove them from your calendar.
Select Save to apply changes.
Remove Registrations feeds
Select Events from the top navigation in Calendar.
Select the ⚙️ settings icon in the top right.
Select Feeds from the left sidebar.
Choose the Registrations feed option from the left sidebar.
Deselect the Registrations Feed toggle at the top of the page.
Review the warning, and then type “Delete” in the text field to confirm deletion.
Select Yes, delete this feed.