Magento 2 Event Manager

Customers will get a zip folder and they have to extract the contents of this zip folder on their system. The extracted folder has an src folder, inside the src folder you have the app folder. You need to transfer this app folder into the Magento 2 root directory on the server as shown below.

After the successful installation, you have to run these commands in the Magento2 root directory.

First command- php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Second Command – php bin/magento setup:di:compile

Third Command – php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

After running the commands, you have to flush the cache from the Magento admin panel by navigating through ->System->Cache management as shown below in the snapshot.

After the successful installation of the module, the admin will navigate to Stores -> Configuration ->Webkul Event Manager ->Group Event Setting as per the below snapshot.

Here the admin will be able to enable or disable the group event manager on the frontend.

• Change the Group Event Status to Enable or Disable.
• Set the Group Events Visiblity on the frontend as All events or only future events.
• Set the Group Events calendar Width & height.
• Set the Group Events calendar color.
• Set the Group Events calendar Text color

After configuring the module settings, the admin needs to click on save the config button.

After the successful installation and configuration of the module, the admin will find the Event Manager menu option in the admin sidebar panel with two options to choose from as per the below snapshot.

Under Event Manager, the admin will be able to Add Events and the Event Groups.

**Now in order to assign the events under event groups, So first events needs to be added**.

To add an event, click on the “Add Event” under Event Manager. This brings up a page to add the events.

Also you can view the list of existing events & their status as shown below in the snapshot.

Now, click the “Add New Event” button to add a new event, that brings up the new event page to add the event details.

Here the admin will enter the required data for the event information which includes –

• Event Name(name of the event).
• Details Link( Help to learn more about the event)
• Event Date(select the date of the event).
• Event Content(content for the event).
• Event Status(set it as enabled or disabled).

After entering all the required data, the admin will click the Save button to save the event.

Now the saved events will be visible on the “Add New Event” page. Here, the admin will be able to edit/delete the events as shown below in the snapshot.

The admin can also change the status of events as enabled or disabled as per the below snapshot.

To add a new event group, click on the “Add New Group Event” button as per the below snapshot.

After clicking the “Add New Group Event“, another page comes up to wherein the admin will enter the details for the group event.

Here the admin will:-

• Enter the group event name.
• Select the store view.
• Assign the respective events for the group.
• Add pages, where the events will show up.
• Set the status of the event group.

After saving the event group, the admin can see the list of all the event groups. Here, the admin can edit and delete or change the status an event group as shown below in the snapshot.

After the admin has configured the events and the event groups, the beautiful calendar showing the events gets displayed at the frontend.

Now for example if the customer selects the “Choose Events Category” as “Recreational Event“, then all the events under that will be displayed.

After a customer clicks on an event he can view the event details as shown below.

The calendar will be shown on the pages, the admin had selected during the event group creation.

On the About Us page, view in the below snapshot.

After a customer clicks on an event he can view the event details as shown below.