BCRA Google Calendar
The original notes for BCRA staff, describing how to use the BCRA calendar, are on the
Council bulletin board page. However, that page is
probably not currently available. So, in brief, here are a few reminders ...
New events
It is generally good practice to "duplicate" an existing event rather than create a new
one. It makes it easier to maintain some level of consistency in the way events are presented.
Old events
It is not good practice to delete old events. They should be kept in the calendar in
case thery need to be referred to – either by a customer, or by BCRA staff wanting to
duplicate the data.
Private and non-BCRA events
Private events (e.g. Council meetings) and non-BCRA events (e.g. BCA AGM) should be tagged
using a specific hashtag (see below) so that they can be properly processed by our software.
Using hashtags in Calendar event titles
You can add hashtag to calendar events, e.g. Monthly Cave Science Seminar
#online
Generally speaking, hashtags have no meaning to the calendar software – they are
just indicators for the reader of the data. They are printed in red in our listing, so you can use
them to highlight special features – like Seminar #online or Field Meeting in Derbyshire #weekend_event. However, there a few tags that do
have a special meaning to the software...
- #private (case insensitive) will prevent the event from listing in the
Forthcoming Events box on the home page. That avoids cluttering that list with events that
are of little interest to most readers.
- #not_BCRA (case insensitive) acts similarly. It allows you to list non-BCRA
events, but not to clutter the Forthcoming Events box
For legacy reasons you dont need a # for #online, but it must then be inside
quotation marks, i.e. "online" for it to be recognised.
The legacy settings for private and not BCRA (without #; case insensitive)
have been removed.
