Core Docs - Church Management - Add an Event

Rock Version: v20.0
Last Modified: 2026-09-02 3:04 PM

Once you've created your calendars, you're ready to place events on them.

Tools > Calendars > Calendar

Shows a list of the current events for a calendar on the Calendar Details Page. As you get more and more events, you'll want to start using the filters on this grid to help you manage the events that are displayed.

The event add/edit screen is where you manage everything about an event. It's grouped into sections, walked through below.

Name - What the event is called. This appears on every calendar it's placed on and in search results.

Active - Whether the event is currently in use. Clearing this pulls the event off your calendars without deleting it.

Status - Marks the event Approved or Not Approved. Only people with approval rights on the calendar can change this. Everyone else sees the current status as a read-only label. Once an event is approved, Rock notes who approved it and when.

Summary - A short, plain-text description. Rock uses it in event lists and as the snippet in search results, so keep it to a sentence or two.

Event Item Details

Description - The full content shown on the event's detail page. This is your space to sell the event.

Photo - The image paired with the event in lists and on its detail page. A picture is worth a thousand words, so don't skimp.

Detail Page URL - Points guests somewhere other than the Rock event detail page. Provide a web address here and Rock uses it when someone selects More Information from the calendar.

Audience & Visibility

Calendars & Audiences

Calendars - The calendars this event is published on. Pick as many as you'd like, but at least one is required.

Audiences - Who the event is meant to reach. These are the same audience choices used across your other web content, and they drive filtering and reporting.

Personalization

Two visitors can land on your events page and see a different lineup. Segments and request filters mark who an event is for, so your listings can lead with what fits the person looking at them: a newcomers lunch for a first-time guest, a parent's night out for a young family. Tagging alone doesn't hide anything. The Calendar block has to be told to filter, which is covered in Explore Different Event Blocks.

Audience Segments - Narrows the event to specific audience segments, such as first-time guests or families with children. See Intro to Personalization Segments for how segments are built.

Request Filters - Ties the event to conditions about the visit itself rather than the person, such as the device being used or the campus context of the request. See Use Request Filters for how Request Filters are built.  

Event Attribute Values

Remember the custom attributes you defined on your calendars? This is where their values get filled in, grouped by calendar.

Event Occurrence Attributes

Define an attribute here once on the event, then set its value separately on each occurrence. Useful for details that shift date to date, like a room number or a host.

Follow An Event
After saving an event you can choose to follow it by selecting the ti ti-star icon in the upper right corner of the details block. This will add it to the list of followed events on your dashboard.