New Calendars: Post-migration checklist

Misty Flowers

October 28, 2024 18:37

After receiving your migration confirmation email, use this checklist to verify the accuracy of your New Calendars setup. Key checks cover calendar names and folder organization, Calendar elements in Composer, and recurring and multi-day event dates.

💡Quick answers

What should you check first after migration? Confirm all calendars are present and correctly named (Normal → Standard; Block calendars each become their own Standard calendar) and organized into the right folders.
Verifying Calendar elements in Composer after migration? Open each page with a Calendar element and confirm settings and event display look correct; reconnect or reconfigure any elements that appear broken.
What happens to Block calendars during migration? They are not supported in New Calendars; each block defined in a Block calendar becomes its own separate Standard calendar.
Why should recurring event dates be confirmed after migration? Recurring events may be migrated as single events; verify that start and end dates are accurate in New Calendars.
Where do you go if the migration results look incorrect? Contact Finalsite Support for quick resolution, or check the "Manage calendars and events in New Calendars module" article for steps on moving calendars between folders.

You have received your notification email and your migration is complete and successful! What next?

It’s important to go in and do a “QA check”. QA stands for “quality assurance” and you want to make sure that the quality and accuracy of this migration is what you hoped for. We know it will be!

QA Task Checklist

Step 1: Calendars and organization

Normal / Standard: Any calendars called "Normal" in Calendar Manager will now be labeled as "Standard". Any missing?
Live: Any calendars called "Live" in Calendar Manager will retain the same name. Any missing?
Folders: Calendars that lived in Groups in Calendar Manager will now need to live in Folders.
- Create Folders
- Move calendars out of the Migrated Calendars folder into the newly-created folders.

Step 2: Events in Composer

Calendar Elements: Where on your site do you have Calendar elements?

Confirm settings and display of events on each Composer instance.

Step 3: Other tasks

Recurring events: These will be migrated as single events. Confirm start and end dates.
Multi-day events: Confirm the end dates and display of events.
Block calendars: New Calendars does not employ the system of block calendars. They will be migrated over as Standard calendars.

New Calendars module resources

You're in New Calendars module, making yourself at home and getting familiarized with its setup. Here are some resources that you might need right away!

Getting started with New Calendars module: quickstart guide to how it works.
New Calendars module permissions: get your team involved right away!
Help your community subscribe to your calendars: increase engagement by helping your people subscribe to your events.
Add events in bulk to New Calendars module: maybe you are ready to put multiple events at once into the module. You can do this in a variety of ways.

What to do if things don’t look right?

Here are a few scenarios where you might need help knowing what to do next.

Q: My calendars are in the wrong folders.
A: Learn about how to move calendars in the article section, “Move and reorganize calendars in folders.”

Q: Our calendar elements and/or calendar tools elements are configured differently and aren’t displaying in Composer correctly.
A: You can reference the article, “Calendar element” to configure your settings and change the way your events display and behave in Composer. Is it a Calendar Tools element instead? Check out “Calendar Tools element” to reference the different configuration options.