Title: event definition
Last modified: May 31, 2023

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# event definition

 *  Resolved [Larry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lpint/)
 * (@lpint)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-definition/)
 * I am with an association of theatres. To my way of thinking (always a suspicious
   happening) an event consists of a presenting theatre, a show, a venue, a date
   and a time.
 * I was going to use the hostname as the theatre, but it does not appear to be 
   able to provide any other information for the theatre (address, website, e-mail
   for example). The hostname seems to only be the name of the logged in user creating
   the event and I have not found a way to change that.
 * The event title should be the show name, but again I’d like this information 
   to come from a table of show names with additional information available (book
   by, music by, lyrics by, cast size, length, licensing agency (from a searchable
   table), short description (default for excerpt) and long description (default
   for description).
 * The other items (location, date and time) work as I’d like.
 * Any ideas as to how I might implement this in My Calendar (or Pro)?
 * Can the data source for any of the above fields be selected from an additional
   database?
 * Thanks, again, for your help.

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 *  Plugin Author [Joe Dolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joedolson/)
 * (@joedolson)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-definition/#post-16787228)
 * There is support for custom fields, and you can build those in My Calendar Pro
   or via custom code. If you wanted to pull that data from external sources, you’d
   probably want to custom build them.
 * The host is the author by default, but that can be changed – you may not have
   the ‘host’ input field enabled? There are template tags that would allow you 
   to show additional information about the host, although it’s limited.

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 * Last activity: [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-definition/#post-16787228)
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