Featured Events

As the dominant resource for local "go and do" information, your newpaper's online property receives a steady stream of event submissions. These submissions come from a variety of channels, including people and organizations in the community, press releases, phone calls, email, regular mail, and more.

Trumba® Connect gives you the ability to feature selected events, making them more visible on your online calendar and turning them into premium listings. The increased visibility benefits submitters and provides you with an opportunity to generate revenue from event content.

As the following calendar demonstrates, you can feature events at three levels of "featuredness". You control the colors, fonts, and other aspects of each level's appearance. You can even replace an event listing with an image that represents the event.

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View Chooser Control Spud

expand What it does

  • Changes the way events are displayed in the Calendar spud.
  • Select a view from the drop-down list.

expand What you can customize

  • Colors and fonts.
  • Which views are listed.
  • The text in the label.
  • Whether or not to display the label.

expand Try it on your own web page

Copy the spud code and paste it into the code for your own web page. Detailed steps

<html><head><title></title></head><body> <div style="width:200px; margin-bottom:20px;"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$Trumba.addSpud({
webName: "trumbatrib_featured",
spudType: "chooser" });
</script></div></body></html>

Currently, only two calendar views, List and Table, support featured events. Use the View Chooser spud above to switch between views. We'll add "featuredness" support to more views over time.

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Calendar - Main Spud

expandWhat it does

  • Displays an interactive calendar of events.
  • Click an event to open the event details page.
  • Hover over an event to see an event details popup (some views).
  • Move between events by group or page.
  • Click RSS to subscribe to an RSS feed of the calendar's events.
  • Click iCal to subscribe to an iCalendar feed of the calendar's events.
  • Click Subscribe to subscribe to an Atom feed of the calendar's events or a scheduled email message containing upcoming events.
  • Select one or more events and click Add to My Calendar, Remind Me By Email, or another event action.

expandWhat you can customize

  • Colors and fonts.
  • Size and position of photo, if included. (some views)
  • Which events the calendar includes.
  • How public the calendar is.
  • Time zone.
  • The day with which weeks begin.
  • The time with which days begin and end.
  • View (for example, Classic Month, List).
  • The appearance of the event details page.
  • The events included in RSS, Atom, and iCal feeds.
  • Event fields that appear in the calendar (some views).
  • Number of events per page (some views).
  • How events are grouped (some views).
  • Default page (some views).
  • How multi-day events behave (some views).
  • Whether or not to display event update markers (some views).
  • Whether or not to feature events (some views).
  • How many levels of featuring to support (some views).
  • The appearance of featured events at each level (some views).
  • Whether or not to support hover event details popup windows.
  • Whether or not site visitors can add events to their personal calendars and take other actions with events.
  • How many events site visitors can act on at a time.
  • Whether or not site visitors can sign up to attend events.
  • Whether or not to automatically replicate your calendar's events on the Eventful website.

expandTry it on your own web page

Copy the spud code and paste it into the code for your own web page. Detailed steps

<html><head><title></title></head><body> <div style="width:600px; padding:24px 25px; border:1px solid #000000; margin-bottom:20px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$Trumba.addSpud({
webName: "trumbatrib_featured",
spudType: "main" });
</script></div></body></html>

Trumba Connect

Trumba Tribune is a demonstration website for Trumba Connect, a web-hosted online calendar solution. For more information about Trumba Corporation and the Trumba Connect product, please visit www.trumba.com.

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Date Finder Control Spud

expandWhat it does

  • Navigates to specific dates in the calendar spud.
  • Click the arrows to move between months.
  • Click a date to display it on the Calendar spud.
  • Hover over a date to display a list of events.

expandWhat you can customize

  • Colors (including weekdays, weekends, and dates with events) and fonts.
  • Show or hide hover popup.

expandTry it on your own web page

Copy the spud code and paste it into the code for your own web page. Detailed steps

<html><head><title></title></head><body> <div style="width:200px; border:1px solid #000000; margin-bottom:20px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$Trumba.addSpud({
webName: "trumbatribune",
spudType: "datefinder",
teaserBase : "http://tribune.trumba.com/online_calendars/display_locate_events.aspx" }); </script></div></body></html>

Try this:

  • You can set up Promotion spuds to display only featured events. Look at the two Promotion spuds below. The top spud lists all upcoming events from the calendar, whether they are featured or not. The bottom spud lists only featured events.