Dates and calendar

For most organisations, events are the most important content: church services, rehearsals, celebrations, meetings. In Komma, you manage them all in one place – and they appear wherever they’re needed.

Creating events

You create events in the portal by entering a title, date, time, venue and description. Categories help to distinguish between different types of events (e.g. by venue or event type).

Where events appear

• On your organisation’s website – the public events calendar is fed directly from Komma.
• In the newsletter – events can be imported into newsletters without having to type them out.
• In your calendar programme – via CalDAV synchronisation (see below).

Calendar synchronisation (CalDAV)

Komma supports the open standard CalDAV. This allows you to subscribe to your organisation’s calendar in Apple Calendar, Thunderbird and other programmes – events appear there automatically and remain up to date. The reverse is also possible: events created in Komma appear in the linked calendar.

You can obtain the login details for synchronisation from your organisation’s administrator.

Best practice

• Create events early, even if details are still missing – you can always add them later.
• Consistent titles (“Church service”, not sometimes “CS” and sometimes “Church service Konstanz”) keep the calendar easy to read.
• Don’t delete cancellations; instead, mark them in the title – this way, visitors can see that the event has been deliberately cancelled.