Set up an external Event Request Form so people outside of eSPACE can request events by filling out the form on your Public Calednar on your website or when you email them the link to the form. Then the managers of the form will see the request come in and can submit them to the regular approval flow. Requesters will automatically get an email when the event has been approved or they can check the status by entering their email.
- To learn about internal forms for eSPACE to fill out when requesting certain spaces, resources and/or services o events, read this Knowledge Base article: Internal Forms: Create, Customize and Require Forms to be Completed
Event Request Form Setup
Go under the Settings > Advanced section, choose Event Request Forms:
From here, click "Create New Custom Event Request Form" to create a new Event Request form.
Default Fields: You will notice that there are certain default fields that are purposely designed in eSPACE to be on every form.
1. Give the Form a NAME and enter the Location(s) this form relates to.
2. Check this box if you want to allow public users to select multiple locations on the public form.
3. Once you enable the above feature, decide if you want to check the following box if you want to allow public users to override public locations.
4. You will see a list of your "Possible Locations" here that your event request form will be associated with.
- Locations will not be required if your organization has disabled Locations, which is NOT recommended if you have Work Order & Asset Management, since work orders require a location.
- Learn more: Locations: Adding, Editing, Parsing Out Permissions, Assigning Items
5. Add users who will manage the Event Requests.
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- Only these people will see the event requests in their left-side menu bar.
6. Then, if you want, enable the external event request form to be available for anyone to use on any of your public calendars with our Public Calendar feature.
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- Learn more our Public Calendar feature here: Public Calendar Feature | Embed Your eSPACE Calendar on your Website
- You can also customize the text in the button, the background color and text color.
- You can also add a custom thank you message that users receive when submitting an event request, as well as a customized image for the form, and decide if a description for events is always required.
If you also have Billing & Invoicing on your subscription, then choose if events submitted through this event request form are billable.
7. Choose if you want to allow people to see any space, resource and/or service that is marked as public.
- In order to have Spaces/Resources/Services appear on the form, you need to mark them "Available for Public Request" within Settings>Basic>Spaces, Resources, or Services (see image below).
8. You can also choose if you want the form to be for only requesting certain spaces and/or resources and/or services.
- In order to limit the form to certain spaces, resources and/or services, you must enable "Show Public Spaces/Resouces/Services".
9. If you want to require people to select at least 1 time (space, resource or service), then make sure to enable "Require at Least One Item".
- Currently, you can not require people to select specific spaces and/or resources and/or services on forms.
10. Select any other desired settings so that they are displayed within the event form on your Public Calendar.
12. Add custom form questions to gain more information about their event request.
Add as many questions as you like, and you can even change the order if you wish by clicking and dropping them in the sort column.
When you are finished editing and customizing the form, click SAVE.
Previewing the Form
To view the Form, just go back to Settings > Advanced > Event Requests and choose "View". You can also see more details of the form, including the URL to get to the custom form by
clicking the arrow beside the FORM name.
Users Filling Out the Form
Users can either click on the form on your Pubic Calednar or click the link when you send it to them.
If they start filling out the form but don't follow through all the way, their progress will be saved and their event request will be in draft mode.
They can actually go right back into the request and finish it!
They can check the status of their requests by clicking "Click Here" at the top right-hand side of the form.
A new status page is available to give them real-time status updates of their requests.
Once Event Requests Are Submitted
Once the New Event Request is submitted, it will show up in the Dashboard under the "Open Event Requests" grid for any admin and/or sub-admin who has been assigned to manage the Event Request Form(s).
- The Event Request can be submitted/approved/declined right from the "Open Event Requests" grid. However, if you have sub-admins as part of your approval who approve certain items in their approval areas, then it is highly recommended that the form managers submit the event request so it goes through the normal approval flow on all sub-admins and admins' Dashboards.
- Also, if they click the Event name or ID, they will go right to the Edit Event screen. The requests are now actual Events in a "Requested State".
Either in the Event Requests or on the Dashboard, the admin(s) and/or Sub-admin(s) assigned to manage the Event Request Form(s) can click on the arrow to the left of the ID to view the event request form.
Submit Event Vs. Approve
If the manager of the form chooses to "Submit Event" the event request, it will go through the normal approval workflow. If they have reviewed the event request and want to go ahead and approve the event, select "Approve". This will bypass the normal workflow and automatically approve the event request.
Once the manager of the form submits the event for approval, they become the new owner of the event and the requester is added as a contact for the event. However, all the dashboard grids will show the "requester" as the "Created By" for public event requests only.
Decline Event Requests
If the form manager chooses to "Decline" the event, there will be a screen that pops up where you can enter the reason for the decline and an email notification will be sent to the requester that includes who declined it and why (see below).
Viewing ALL Event Requests
To review all event requests, go to "All Event Requests", located on the left sidebar of your dashboard. Here, you have a history of all your event requests. You always have the option to view them or delete them.
Within the "All Event Requests" grid, you can view upcoming, past, declined and draft public event requests as shown below. You also have the ability to search for an event request.
Within the different tabs, you can filter any column header by clicking on the filter button to the right of the column header name.
You can also sort each column in ascending or descending order by clicking on the column header name. In the example below, I clicked on "Form" and it put the column in ascending alpha order. To put this column in descending order, I would simply click "Form" again.
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