The hierarchy of the Newman Connect App requires an event to be hosted by a group. In order to create an event, you have to associate it with a specific group.
Ex: Men's group is going to host a meeting on Thursday. The group leader would create an event, associate it with the men's group and publish it. Everyone in that group will then see the event in the Events tab and it will also appear algorithmically in the home feed.
Ex 2: You want to create a Welcome Week event but do not have a group assigned to welcome week. You would create the event and associate it with the name of your ministry as the hosting group. This in turn makes the event visible to everyone on the app at your campus.
When creating an event you can:
- choose a cover photo
- associate the event with a group
- choose a gender (if applicable)
- choose public or private
- include a brief description
- choose the start and end date/time
- choose if the event is recurring, and the recurrence pattern
- select venue and location
- choose whether or not you want to have a chat thread related to the event
Once you have completed these fields, the Create button in the upper right-hand corner will appear. If you chose to publish immediately, the event will show up in the Events tab as well as under the corresponding group in the Groups tab.