Adding shows to InterAct Calendar

• Use the Periodic "Add event" link to add most of show dates.
  • The Periodic link is for the nights of the week your production show every weekend of its run;
  • Use the Daily link on the calendar bar to add the rest.
• Example: Look at the calendar below.
  • The show runs every Friday and Saturday of its run.
  • Adding one Periodic entry will cover all eight of those performance days.
  • Adding three Daily entries will add the rest, a Thursday and two Sundays.
• Process: Click Periodic; click create,

  Sun.	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
  1	2	3	4	5 SHOW	6 SHOW	7 SHOW
  8	9	10	11	12	13 SHOW	14 SHOW
  15 SHOW	16	17	18	19	20 SHOW	21 SHOW
  22 SHOW	23	24	25	26	27 SHOW	28 SHOW

  For this show, the Periodic link is used to add:
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  • Make sure the Until year is the one you want! (It starts off defaulted at 2002!)
  • Repeat your show using Repeat by Day of Week box; use "Ctrl" or "Shift" keys to choose the days of every weekend your show plays. In our example, it is only Friday and Saturday
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• Under Calendar Text, add your Theatre abbreviation and title. This will appear on the Calendar. Be as brief as possible. Under Popup text, type or paste anything you want to say about your show. If a Curtain Call site visitor clicks on your show title on the calendar, this information will "popup" in it's own window.
  • Hint: Copy your show description from your brochure or website and past it here.
  • Hint: Be persuasive; sell it! Include your full theatre name and box Office phone number.
       
  • Hint: Copy what you put in the pop-uptext box for later steps.
  • Alternative: take Curtain Call visitor to your website area that describes your show. Click for an Example
  • Don't choose Start or End Time for your show; it's easier and cleaner to type "8pm" in the calendar text box.  
  • Choose your theatre:  
    You are done; click on: 
• Then you will see:
  
• Now add the other performance dates; in our example, they would be Thur 5, Sun 15 and Sun 22
  • Click on the "5" in the calendar bar, you'll go to Daily events. Click on Create, and add your show information.
  • Hint: If you copied show info as suggested above, just paste it in popup text box to save time.
  • Submit, and repeat for "15" and "22." Click on View Calendar to see your entry.
• Last note: the Edit link opens your work and you can change what you've done; the little scissors icon at the end of the calendar bar will cut your entry and remove it entirely from the calendar.
  • Last hints: Nobody wants to retype show description for each entry! Here's a few ways to get to it easily:
    • Word processor: Have your show information in another program open at the same time as your browser, minimized. Activate it anytime you want to copy and paste
    • Calendar: view your calendar, click on the show title, select what is there and copy it.
    • Edit entry: click on the edit link, copy text from popup text box to paste on another entry.
• Alternative: take Curtain Call visitor to a website that describes your show.
  • Go to your own web site. Copy the link that goes to your show. Paste it in the Popup text box.
    
    Now, when a Curtain Call visitor clicks on your title on the calendar, the right frame of the browser will go to your show's website. If you want to do this, take note:
  • DO NOT take them to your full website. The buttons and theatre names on the left frame do that. If you take them to your home-page, there will be frames within frames and they will not work right. As site administrator, I will change links that violate this design element of Curtain Call.
  • DO TAKE THEM to the page and anchor of your website that goes only to the show information that is on the calendar and which the Curtain Call site visitor is seeking information for.
• VERY LAST HINT: Come by the Ricks House during my office hours and I will gladly step you through the reservation and/or Curtain Call adding shows process!