Hi friends!  

We’ve been hard at work here at Heropa, and we’re pleased to announce some improvements to our Events module. Our goal is to make managing Events easier for event administrators and instructors, and these updates are a great step in that direction.

Changes to Event scheduling

The first big piece of news, is a new way to manage event schedules. When creating an event, we've removed the need to associate an event with a policy. Instead, an event schedule can be set for the event. 2 types of schedules can be created: 

1. Daily schedule: Allows for the bulk creation of consecutive days with the same daily schedule - ie the same start and end times each day. Weekends can be optionally excluded.
2. Custom schedule: Allows for the creation of non-consecutive days, or days with different schedules.  

We’ve also tidied up the Create new event flow so that Scheduling is done in the second step, called 'Schedule'. All other customizable options are managed in the third step, called 'Options'. 

For more information, see: Creating an event.

This update also includes more flexible editing to Event schedules after the event has been created, or the event has started. It's now easy to: 

• Change the start / end time on any given day (thus adding or removing time to a daily schedule)
• Add additional days to a pre-existing schedule 

For more information, see: Running an event.

Enhanced event seat allocation

We've also made it easier to manage the allocation of event seats. In an event, select 'Manage seats' to see the following:

From this modal, you can:

1. Add seats to an event
2. Add users to an event, including new users
3. Import users via a csv file

For more information, see: Managing event participants.

We’re excited to offer these new ways to manage events, and we’re sure that you will love the improvements. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to reach out! We’re always looking for ways to improve Heropa, and we’d love to hear your thoughts.