Events and Calendar

The Events section is where the company publishes everything that happens at a specific time and place: training sessions, office openings, meetups, audits, all-hands, parties. Events are first-class content with a dedicated landing page (/events), a month-grid calendar at /events/calendar, an upcoming-events block on the homepage and a single-event page at /event/{slug} that includes a Leaflet map for physical locations.

Upcoming Events page with three tabs (Upcoming, Archived, Calendar) and a list of events with date columns, titles and locations

What it is

An event is a Drupal node of bundle event. It captures when something happens (a date range), where it happens (a physical address with a geocoded map point, or an online URL) and what it is about (rich-text description with cover image). Events are surfaced through three views (upcoming list, archived list, month calendar) and a homepage block.

The calendar layer is provided by the Calendar View module with the optional FullCalendar View integration; locations are rendered with Leaflet on top of OpenStreetMap tiles.

Components

The event content type

Each event carries the following editorial fields:

Field	Type	Purpose
Title	Plain text	Headline shown on listings, calendar cells and the event page.
Description (`body`)	Rich text (CKEditor 5)	The main event copy: agenda, speakers, dress code, parking notes, etc.
Background image (`field_background_image`)	Media reference	Cover image used as the listing thumbnail and behind the event title.
Event date (`field_event_date`)	Date range	Start date and time, end date and time. Drives every listing, sort order and the calendar position.
Location (`field_event_location`)	Address	Country, address lines, city, postal code.
Map location (`field_map_location`)	Geofield	Geocoded latitude / longitude rendered as a Leaflet marker on the event page.
Hide location (`field_hide_location`)	Boolean	If checked, the address block and map are not rendered on the public page. Useful for confidential events.
Event online (`field_event_online`)	Boolean	Marks an event as online; the location section is replaced by the online URL.
Event online text (`field_event_online_text`)	String	The URL or call-in details for online events (Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, etc.).

Create Event form with Title and Description (CKEditor with AI Assistant) on the left and right-side panels for Menu, Flags, URL alias, Authoring information

Lower part of the Create Event form: Background image picker, Event date (start / end), Location with country selector

Three tabs: Upcoming, Archived, Calendar

/events is split into three tabs:

Upcoming — /events. Date-grouped list of events whose start date is in the future. Each row shows a date column on the left (large day number, abbreviated month) and a content column on the right with the time, title, and location (or online URL).
Archived — /events/archived. Same layout, but events whose end date is in the past.
Calendar — /events/calendar. A month grid (Mon → Sun) with one cell per day. Events appear as coloured pills in the relevant cell; a click opens the full event page. Use the navigation controls to move between months.

The event detail page

A single event is rendered with the title, key metadata block (date, location, description) and — for physical events — a Leaflet map below the description. The map zoom and centre are derived from the geocoded coordinates stored in field_map_location.

Event detail page for "Grand Opening: New Office in London" with Event Date, Location, Description and a Leaflet map

For online events the address block is replaced by the Event online text value (the meeting URL or dial-in details). For events with Hide location ticked, both the address and the map are hidden.

Events on the homepage

The default front page (/news-homepage) reserves a slot in the right column for an Events block. It lists the next few upcoming events as compact rows: date pill on the left (day number + month abbreviation), then the start time, title and location. A click jumps to the full event page.

This block is provided by the events_blocks view, which can also be placed on any other Drupal page from /admin/structure/block.

URL pattern

Event URLs are aliased automatically by Pathauto using the pattern /event/[node:title-slug]. The listings live at /events, /events/archived and /events/calendar.

Views that power the section

View	Role	URL / display
`events_listing`	Upcoming + Archived tabs	`/events`, `/events/archived`
`events_calendar`	Month grid	`/events/calendar`
`events_blocks`	Homepage and any other “upcoming events” block	placeable via Block layout
`content_calendar`	Editorial calendar in the admin	`/admin/dashboard/content-calendar`

Integration with other features

Engagement scoring — Viewing an event detail page and interacting with it (where reactions / comments are enabled) feeds the user’s Engagement RFV score.
Search — Events are indexed by the default_index Search API index. Title, body and location are full-text searchable; users can filter results to events only.
Layout Builder — The single-event display is rendered with Layout Builder, so a site builder can rearrange the date / location / map / body blocks per content type without touching code.
Notifications — When the Messenger module is enabled and configured, an admin can broadcast an event invitation by email or SMS to selected groups.
Translations — When additional languages are enabled, events can be translated; each translation has its own date and location.
Room Booking — The Room Booking recipe ships its own calendar (room_booking_calendar) for booking conference rooms; the two calendars sit next to each other on the same site.

Permissions

Capability	Default role(s)
View published events	Anonymous + authenticated user
Create / edit / delete own events	Content editor
Edit / delete any event	Content editor, Administrator
Set “Hide location” / “Event online”	Content editor (via standard edit permission)
View revisions / revert	Content editor, Administrator

Modules behind it

Drupal core: node, views, path, datetime, datetime_range, editor, image, layout_builder
address — postal address field for the location
geofield — geocoded point storage for the map
leaflet, leaflet_views — Leaflet map rendering
calendar_view, calendar_view_multiday — month grid display
fullcalendar_view — alternative FullCalendar.io display
pathauto — /event/{slug} URL alias
datetimehideseconds — keeps the date inputs short

Learn more

How to use it — step-by-step procedures for browsing, adding and editing events
Creating content — common authoring patterns shared by all content types
Room Booking — the related, opt-in recipe for booking specific rooms / facilities