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Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on January 17, 2012 at 11:02am: HI Sharon

Our software doesn't always make it obvious (like most software!)

As long as you originally enter the event yourself, you have editing permission. Go to the event, and up at the top right under the Menu bar you should see an 'Options' box next to '+Add' which is a drop down - and one of the options is to edit the event. I have just set your events live and added some pictures myself...

K

Comment by Sharon Bryant on January 17, 2012 at 10:28am: Hi Keith, sorry to be a bit thick but I can't find out where to edit an event and would like to put a picture on.

Thanks Sharon

Comment by Lyn French on November 9, 2011 at 5:57pm: Hi Keith

I uploaded two events on Monday but only one has been approved. Is there any way you can look into this to see what has happened to the other one, it's a free seminar.

Many thanks.

Lyn

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on August 10, 2011 at 4:38pm: Hi Clive

You can find a previous event using the Calendar if you know the date, or put a keyword or two into the Search box (top right) - in your case, BEA Caterham. Then you can open the event and provided you posted it yourself (and not me!) you can simply change the date and any details and Save it. The original event you amended is then lost, so you wouldn't want to do do it with current events.

The site won't allow you to post recurring events - which in some ways is a blessing! Imagine if all the breakfast groups were able to post one listing and have it repeat every week or fortnight - the Featured EVENTS listing would have forty plus breakfast meetings each week (8 per day) - very dull! You can post ,say, the next three upcoming events (with a bit of copy and pasting) and then as soon as one expires, go in and update that to the next future slot - so you've always got three on the go.

I created the Rggular Group Meetings pages to cater for BNI, 4N etc so all their venues and days are on one page, with links to their sites. Occasionally especially if a group is moving to a new venue, a new group is being launched, or there's a Visitors day, or if a Member posts it, I will have one of hese regular events in the Feautured EVENTS listing where it gets a whole page.

Comment by Clive Wilson on August 10, 2011 at 10:31am: Hi Keith,

Is it possible to duplicate a previous event and then edit its details?

We have the same meeting format each month but need to change speaker and date details.

Many thanks,

Clive

Comment by Jeremy Webb on June 29, 2011 at 9:01am: Hi Keith

How do I remove / disable / hide past events?

Comment by Lizanne Jakobs on June 27, 2011 at 10:11am: Hi Keith,

I have uploaded an event, but it says it needs to be approved. Do you need to do that or is there something I should do to make it happen?

thanks,

Lizanne

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on May 23, 2011 at 10:55pm: Hi Paulette

You can't upload an offer yourself. You need to email it to me and I'll upload and format it for you...

BRs

K

Comment by Paullette Schwartz on May 23, 2011 at 6:31pm: Hi - I can't seem to figure out how to upload an offer... Keith any ideas?

Regards

Paullette

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on March 9, 2011 at 2:51pm: Hi Lyn

I've uploaded the image OK, so the short answer is - I honestly don't know!

My sequence of actions:

1. Click 'Edit Event'

2. Click the camera icon next to 'Event image'

3. In the 'Upload an Image...' box click 'Browse'

4. Choose the image from my PC

5. Click 'Done'

6. Click 'Save' at the bottom of the page

If you're doing the same I can't see why it isn't working. Please let me know and I'll investigate further!

BRs

K

Comment by Lyn French on March 9, 2011 at 11:17am: Hi Keith

I'm afraid that I'm having problems again. For some reason I can't upload the Jelly image onto the event, every time I go to upload the page disappears on me? Grateful if you could help please. Lyn

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on February 18, 2011 at 4:38pm: Ning can be tempereamental at times! It is there and awaiting approval - or to be more accurate awaiting me tweaking it a bit. I had a long chat withh Graham Reeves this morning, and among other things asked if he could send me a decent BB logo - preferable a square-ish version. What he's sent is a not very high-res jpeg, and unfortunately their slender font doesn't perform very well in low-res lossy jpeg form. I'll keep chasing - and meanwhile I'll set yor event live now and tweak it later!

Comment by Lyn French on February 18, 2011 at 4:20pm: Hi Keith, I had a lot of problems loading the Business Biscotti event in Caterham on 23 Feb 2011 yesterday. It eventually accepted it (after the 4th attempt) but it is not appearing in the events list and it doesn't say that it is awaiting approval. Can you help? Lyn

Comment by Lesley Vaughan on March 25, 2010 at 5:32pm: Keith, Please advise what I am doing wrong. When I go into an existing event and edit it, the changes do not reflect on the Events Page. Example,18 March at Oatlands Park Hotel has been changed to 1 April, the change does not appear on the general page of events, only on My Page. Lesley

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on March 20, 2010 at 4:32pm: Hi Robyn

Yep, guilty as charged! Even if you don't get time to post them, I like to keep Members' events listed so I'll do my best!

BRs

K

Comment by Robyn Hatley on March 19, 2010 at 8:19pm: Hi Keith, was it you who added the details of our Esher Athena launch? If so, THANK YOU! It's been so busy at Athena that my "to do" has been never-ending! Great to meet yu at the Expo too - thank you for coming across to say hi.

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on February 18, 2010 at 2:05pm: Hi Sally-Ann

Great!

I think the photo is just fine - and your version is higher res than what I grabbed from your site. It doesn't have the cropping problem either. Thanks for persisting with this...

Best regards

K

Comment by Sally-Ann North on February 18, 2010 at 12:51pm: HI Keith,

Many thanks! I did forget to save it. I will try and get another photo but this will have to do for now.

Kind regards

Sally-Ann

Comment by Keith Grover, Copywriter on February 18, 2010 at 10:22am: Hi Sally-Ann

Is it the photo you have on your website? I have copied that and inserted it into my own page (so for a spooky few seconds, I was you :-) It wasn't entirely successful because that photo has been unusually cropped and shows white space around it when it's uploaded. If you have a higher res photo tha would be better.

So, just to recap what you're doing...

You go to your photo on your My Page
You click on Change Photo
You get to the My Settings page
You click Browse next to the photo box
You get the Choose File window
You navigate to the photo on your machine and click on it
You click Open, and the file pathe appears in the photo box (next to the Browse button
Then - and this is what I often forget to do - you go to the bottom of the page and click the blue Save button

If you're still having no luck, please get back to me - we'll crack this! Remember David Hillis famous definition (re-iterated by Douglas Adams): 'Technology = stuff that doesn't work yet!'

K

Comment by Sally-Ann North on February 18, 2010 at 9:02am: Thanks Keith, I did that, put the photo name in the browser and asked it to open but it won't do it!