Expand the "join event" CTA button to in-person events

Feature Requests
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In Karl’s session on accessibility at the conference, one of the points was “links are for going somewhere, buttons are for doing something.” That being said, there is currently not a way (that I am aware of) to use a button for calls to action for in-person events - e.g., Register, Buy Tickets, Get on the Waitlist, etc. So we are currently doing those CTAs as text links either at the end of the event description or in the Related Content section, or both. But a colored button would pop more - and be better for accessibility, right?

If you check “This is an online event,” you can enter a URL and text for a button to join the event which appears on the left side of the event page. But you can’t use that option for in-person events because you have to check the online event box in order to use it. Could that button option be available for all types of events - in person, online or hybrid - so that we can use it for any CTA - Join the Webinar, Register for the Event, Buy Tickets - and the CTA would always appear as a colored button in a consistent place for users?

Thanks for considering!

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Hey Jen – great question!

The idea of a consistent CTA link/button option (depending on how you view it definitely comes up in a lot of calendars).

Most often, we see this executed using a Custom Field – it’s actually our example in the documentation for how to add a Custom Field, we call it registration_link in the how-to since that’s probably the most common thing people use it for. More instructions are here in the documentation.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks, Karl. As a calendar admin who is not a developer that page might as well be written in Chinese for me, lol. Seriously though, it would be great if there was a user-friendly way to do this in the admin interface without having to ask a web developer to go into the back-end code to create a custom field. The fact that the functionality is already there in the online event section - just paste a URL, add your button text and voila! you have a CTA button - IMHO it seems like a no-brainer to simply make that functionality available whether or not the online event box is checked. Hoping yinz will consider that for an upcoming release. :slight_smile:

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Consider it considered! :+1: Thanks Jen.

(One more thought: If you’ve got a personalized email support plan, this is also the kind of easy+quick customization that our team could help do a 1-time setup for, and then it’d be available to all your event editors going forward.)