Event Content Type

Fields:

• Event Title - Title of the event.
• Deck - Subtitle on the actual post. Doesn’t usually have punctuation.
• Kicker - The kicker is the short descriptive text displayed above the title. Ex. "DAP LEARNING SERIES, 10X, OR VIDEO (video is the default once a youtube_id is added).
• Summary - Shows on the event list page (if there is no Deck) and on social media posts. The Summary is also used when generating a calendar invite via the Add To Calendar button. Summary should have sentence punctuation.
• Host - the host of the event
• Event Organizer - organizer of the event, usually Digital.gov
• Primary images - Shows on social media cards when posting on other platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
• Weight - In general, weight determines the visibility of the page on the platform. This behaves differently for each content type. For events, adding a weight isn't needed. Events will display without a weight of 1. In fact, adding a weight of 1 to the events will actually cause some unwanted side effects where the event will appear at the end of the upcoming list instead of correct chronological order on the Events page.
• Topics - This field is a (select) list that allows you to pick topics from the ones available on the platform. In the Workflow Tool, start typing in the topic and then choose from the list of items displayed to you. Do not enter a new topic here, only choose from the ones available. You can see the full list of current platform topics on the digital.gov topics page. Only choose the 1 or 2 most relevant topics for an event. A good practice is to look at a previous event that is similar and choose the same topics as that event. The topics that you choose here are used to populate the Event sidebar. If the sidebar area is blank, that means you need to go in and add topics to the event. The event will also show on the Topic list page for each topic you select. If the topics don't pre-populate (shows No results found) when you start typing then it is likely that the topics API is broken and needs repaired. Please add a GitHub issue or post in slack.
• Youtube ID - the id number for the video found at the end of the url - skTiK_6DdqU in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skTiK_6DdqU

Note for page layout:

• On the list of Events page, the Deck has display priority over the Summary. If there is a Deck for the event then it will be shown. If there is no Deck, then the Summary will be shown. (see line 12 of card-event.html.