{"id":3356,"date":"2025-04-03T02:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/?page_id=3356"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:47:05","slug":"calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/interactive-design\/common-processes\/calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"University vs BU Today Events Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3563\" style=\"width: 1437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/marcom-team\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.35.45\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1081\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.35.45\u202fPM.png 1427w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.35.45\u202fPM-636x482.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.35.45\u202fPM-1024x776.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-05-at-5.35.45\u202fPM-768x582.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example Calendar from the School of Medicine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"412\"><strong data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"161\">University Calendar Application<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"412\" class=\"\">This is BU\u2019s primary calendar system, used across schools, departments, and centers. Calendars can share events with each other and feed into the main University Calendar. Our plugins and framework fully support this system\u2014it\u2019s what we design for.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"713\"><strong data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"442\">BU Today Events Calendar<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"713\">This is a separate, externally hosted calendar (via Localist), used only by BU Today. Some events are pulled in from the main calendar, and some stakeholders manually add events here for extra visibility. We do <em data-start=\"656\" data-end=\"661\">not<\/em> support or integrate this system into our projects.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"732\" class=\"\"><strong data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"730\">Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"733\" data-end=\"925\">\n<li data-start=\"733\" data-end=\"794\" class=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"794\" class=\"\">Events for websites <strong data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"763\">must<\/strong> use the University Calendar.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"868\" class=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"868\" class=\"\">Events featured on BU Today need to be entered in <strong data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"855\">both<\/strong> calendars.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"925\" class=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"925\" class=\"\">We have <strong data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"891\">no plans<\/strong> to support Localist integrations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"950\" class=\"\">Questions? Please reach out to Interactive Design Creative Director <a href=\"mailto:jonpb@bu.edu\">Jon P. Brousseau<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Calendar Application This is BU\u2019s primary calendar system, used across schools, departments, and centers. Calendars can share events with each other and feed into the main University Calendar. Our plugins and framework fully support this system\u2014it\u2019s what we design for. 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