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what permissions are needed to view the civi-event html page here http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&page=1&html=1 (ie. the page that you by clicking on this  from manage events.

Fixed. "view event info" permission was missing for demo user.

My real question though is whether there is (should be) an way to embed the table that is on the event listing page into a civiMail mail easily. I can copy the html across and looking at it I think I can bully fckeditor into accepting my stylesheet but it's a bit of an ask to get users to do that. If it were to be built in how would people think it should be done? A button on the manage events page to give the html for the table? Or even maybe a box on compiling the civimail to insert an appropriate table? What else would need to be sorted?

IMO button or link of http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&page=1&html=1, will be better option.

HTh

Kurund

Hi,

Agree, there is always the same complain on my side. Everytime you create an event you will want to send invitations. The problem is that both civievent and civimail use wizards, by the end of the 37 clicks to create the event, you have to go another 42 for generating a mailing in civimail... and in between you have to go through a lot of copy paste, because the content of the mail you want is more or less the content of the information displayed on the event anyway.

The more I use the wizards, the more I think they are the wrong answer to a good problem: how to make it easier.

One of the issues is that they go through steps that are optional (eg payment, tell a friend) but you have to go through them anyway. Might be better to start with some kind of table of content with checkbox, to be able to skip some of them :
- paid event ?
- online registration  ?
- tell a friend option ?
- limited number of participants ?

X+

P.S. As for the number of click, that's give or take a handful