Featured Events displays a short list of upcoming campus events, pulled automatically from approved event feeds. You choose which events to highlight by name, and the component builds each event card for you, including the date, day and time, event title, and location. You do not type any of those details yourself. On the published page, events appear as clean, linked cards beneath your heading.
When to use Featured Events
Reach for Featured Events when you want to point visitors toward specific upcoming happenings that are already listed in a campus calendar feed. Good use cases include:
- A department page spotlighting its own upcoming lectures, recitals, or info sessions
- An athletics or program page highlighting the next few games or events
- A profile page showing events a faculty or staff member is involved with
- Any page where you want to surface a handful of timely, date-driven events without maintaining them by hand
Avoid using Featured Events for content that is not a real, scheduled event in one of the approved feeds, since only events from those feeds can be added. If you want to highlight news or stories instead of events, the Collection: ICView & News or Feed: Latest News components are usually a better fit.
Where events come from
You cannot type in a custom event. The events available to you are drawn from a set of approved feeds:
- Sidearm, for athletics and sports events
- Engage, for student organization activities
- The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, for Music Department events
- Select campus events added by the marketing team
As you type into the event field, only events from these sources will appear as options to select.
How the feed displays and updates
A few behaviors are handled automatically, so it helps to know what to expect:
- You can preload as many upcoming events as you like, but only three will display on the published page at a time.
- After an event occurs, it automatically disappears from the feed, so the list stays current without any editing on your part.
- Events scheduled more than 100 days out will not appear as selectable options until they are within the 100-day window.
- If there are no upcoming events to show, the entire component becomes invisible on the published page, including the heading, subheading, and link. Nothing empty is left behind.