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Hosting Event Calendars in Events+

The transition to Events+ will ensure a consistent experience across the Cvent platform in terms of functionality, look, and feel. Additionally, you will receive Events+ for enhanced customization, control, and analytics of your event management needs.

  • Custom sections on pages
  • Multi-calendar support
  • Advanced Controls (marketing UTMs, code snippets, SSO, blacklisting)


Overview: Hosting Event Calendars in Events

Events+ now supports custom pages for calendars. Moving forward, you should use Events+ to host all calendars that require additional content layout, rather than our previous site editor. In addition, Events+ offers advanced functionality, including access control, analytics, marketing parameters, and pre-filled event registrations, to help you maximize the benefits of your calendars.

Getting started with Events+

Introduction to Event Calendars in Events+

Hosting your event calendars in Events+ turns your schedule into an interactive, branded destination where visitors can explore upcoming events alongside on-demand videos and other rich content—all in one centralized hub. By surfacing your calendars within Events+, you make it easy for prospects to browse your program and register for what’s next with a single click. It’s a streamlined way to promote your event portfolio, extend engagement beyond live dates, and keep audiences coming back to discover more.


Follow the instructions below to add and design your event calendars in an Events+ hub.
Managing Event Calendars in Events+ Hub

Benefits of Events+

Event promotion through calendars and on-demand video

Events+ is a centralized hub that lets you promote and share your past event content and future events all in one place. Establish your thought leadership, build your following, and have visitors jump at the chance to join you at your future events.

Promote events, share videos, and help attendees discover your events

  • Event calendars
  • Multi-calendar support
  • Event calendar customization
  • Event registration
  • Video channels
  • Audio translations, subtitles, & captions
  • Video chaptering

Guide to Hosting Event Calendars in Events+

View our step-by-step guide to quickly set up, customize, and share your event calendar with attendees.

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Calendar vs. Event Calendars Hosted in Events+

When is Events+ the better choice for hosting my event calendars instead of the Calendar?

  • Legacy Calendar: The current event calendar, built with the site editor, for displaying upcoming events.
  • Calendar: The new event calendar with an updated interface, improved layout, and enhanced theming options.
  • Calendar hosted in Events+: An interactive event hub that combines event calendars with multimedia content and engagement tools.

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Getting started with Event Calendars hosted in Events+

How do I switch to Events+?

To ensure a smooth transition and to take full advantage of the new features, please take the following actions promptly: 

  1. Create Events+ Hub - Follow the setup guides for creating and enabling features in Events+ to prepare for calendar migration.
  2. Migrate Event Calendars - Redesign standalone calendar content within Events+ calendar pages.
  3. Update Resources: Update and replace existing calendar URLs with Events+ URLs in your internal and external marketing communication assets.
  4. Update Emails: Replace event calendar data tags with Events+ calendar or Events+ URL.

Host Event Calendars in Events+

  1. Enable in Events+: Under the 'Details' tab, ensure that you have enabled your selected event calendar to be available in Events+.
  2. Navigate to Events+ Hub: Go to 'Events+' in your top navigation, then click on the hub you want to host your event calendar in.
  3. Add Events Calendar to Hub: Navigate to 'Event Calendar' section in your Events+ hub. Click 'Add Event Calendar', select the event calendar you want associated to that hub. 
  4. Customize Calendar Content: Recreate your existing legacy calendar content in Events+ by using custom sections, quick links, and text & images.

Getting started with Calendar

Update the New Calendar

  1. In the Details tab, edit and select a default layout for your new Calendar.
  2. In the Calendar tab, edit and select a theme for your new Calendar.
  3. Once the configuration is complete, return to the Details tab and ensure your visibility status across products has been set as Active to enable the new Calendar.

Update and Disable Legacy Calendar

  1. Update Resources: Update and replace legacy calendar URLs with calendar URLs in your internal and external marketing communication assets.
  2. Update Emails: Replace legacy event calendar tags with new calendar or Events+ URL.
  3. After updating all materials, go to the Legacy Calendar tab.
  4. Set the legacy calendar status to Inactive to complete the update.

Resources to help you get your feet off the ground

Events+ Overview

Browse through this overview document to learn Events+ can help accommodate your needs for event management and attendee engagement.

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Events+ Additional Features

Watch this video to learn more about additional features of Events+.

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Events+ Learning Center

A helpful resource to find additional resources, join discussions with other users, and submit product ideas.

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Help Article: Getting Started with Events+ Hub

This article walks you through all the steps to get started with Events+.

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Help Article: Giving Members Access to Their Events from an Events+ Hub

Read these step-by-step instructions for giving members access to their events.

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