What is an Event?

Owned by Matt Kepple
Last updated: Sept 25, 2024
1 min read

An event on Makerble is like a calendar appointment. It has a

  • Title

  • Start time and date

  • End time and date

How do events relate to other parts of Makerble?

Brief summary

  • Every event belongs to a single project

  • Users who work at an event are called Event Workers

  • Users with permission to edit an event’s details are called Event Managers

  • Contacts who are scheduled to attend an event are called Event Guests

  • When a guest attends an event, their attendance is recorded in a story that is saved to the

    • the timeline of the event

    • the timeline of the project that the event belongs to

    • the timeline of the guest who attended the event (i.e. the timeline of the contact)

  • And like all stories, the attendance story also appears on

    • the timeline of the user who logged the guest’s attendance

    • the homepage of anyone who follows that user or the project that the event belongs to

    • the timeline of the organisation

In more detail

Where events fit

  1. Every event belongs to a project.

  2. Every event has one Event Category which determines

  3. A project can have many Event Categories added to it. https://makerble.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MCPD/pages/1123221517

    1. When you add several Event Categories, it means that when users are creating an event within that project, they can choose which Event Category to use

  4. Each Event Category can be added to several projects https://makerble.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MCPD/pages/1123221517

  5. Within the Events app, your Contacts are called Guests

Apps and Features that work with Events

How other Apps and Features fit into the hierarchy of the platform