Youth Activities Planner entries in Ward Calendar

Is there a reason why entries in the Youth Activities Planner do not show up in the Ward Calendar? The general interface for the planning of activities is great, and something we can do with youth leaders, but where those don't show up in the Ward Calendar, it's difficult to tell ward members, "Go look at the calendar" when that's not where things exist.

I don't have access to the Youth Activities Planner tool, but I thought I read somewhere when it was introduced that there was a way to "push" events from there to the regular LDS.org Calendar. Is that option there?

I did not see that as an option anywhere

I stand corrected – I do have access to the Youth Activities Planner tool.

I see an "Add to Calendar" link at the bottom after creating an activity. Are you an editor for any ward calendars? Maybe you have to be added as a calendar editor, and then the button will show up? For example, I am an editor for my stake calendar, so I see an "Add to Stake Calendar" button. I don't have any options to add it to my ward calendar (I'm not an editor on any ward calendars).

sbradshaw wrote:I see an "Add to Calendar" link at the bottom after creating an activity. Are you an editor for any ward calendars? Maybe you have to be added as a calendar editor, and then the button will show up? For example, I am an editor for my stake calendar, so I see an "Add to Stake Calendar" button. I don't have any options to add it to my ward calendar (I'm not an editor on any ward calendars).

I'm an editor for ward calendars (but not stake calendars) and it shows "Add to Ward Calendar" for me. So I expect you're right.

im the new president how do i add events in the ward calendar

BrynWeekes wrote:im the new president how do i add events in the ward calendar

New callings can take up to 24 hours for all the permissions to start to work. After that, you need to talk to the bishopric. Who has rights to add events to what calendar is completely up to the ward.

As for actually adding events, if you go to the calendar on the LDS web page, if you click on a date, you should get a prompt to add an event.

As the person that oversees our Stake's calendaring, I am intrigued by this Youth Activity Planning. If it really puts items on the Ward/Stake calendar since I do not see (from the screenshot above) any place to put what building/resource it would use to add it. If it adds it without an actual resource mapped, then it could cause folks to think they have a room that they do not. Hmmmm! And would it show a conflict if there was one?

RBeatse wrote:If it adds it without an actual resource mapped, then it could cause folks to think they have a room that they do not.

Since I don't think they input a location, hopefully they're not under that impression.

RBeatse wrote:Hmmmm! And would it show a conflict if there was one?

No resource, no conflict (according to the system). However, someone may notice that it's scheduled the same time as something else when they look at their calendar.

I have been trying to link the youth planning calendar from youth.lds.org to the ward calendar, but it won't link. I do have access to add activities to the ward calendar, as the second counselor in the Young Men Presidency; however, is there a way to link the two as to make youth planning more streamlined?

ryansdaniel wrote:I have been trying to link the youth planning calendar from youth.lds.org to the ward calendar, but it won't link.

I'm not sure what you mean by "link". At best, you can push a single event to the calendar. I don't think any kind on ongoing connection is possible (at least, not at this time).

I mean link as in I cannot plan an event in the youth planner and have it appear on the ward calendar. The youth planning application is not communicating with the ward calendar to show the activities planned through the youth calendar at youth.lds.org.

ryansdaniel wrote:I mean link as in I cannot plan an event in the youth planner and have it appear on the ward calendar. The youth planning application is not communicating with the ward calendar to show the activities planned through the youth calendar at youth.lds.org.

Correct. It does not. Maybe someday that feature will be added.

There is a button for each activity on the youth calendar that can place that activity on the ward/stake calendar, so it saves you from manually entering it. See the screen shot attached to this post for an example of that button.

ryansdaniel wrote:I mean link as in I cannot plan an event in the youth planner and have it appear on the ward calendar. The youth planning application is not communicating with the ward calendar to show the activities planned through the youth calendar at youth.lds.org.

Wow. I am amazed that the Church has created two completely independent calendaring systems with no interface between them.

drepouille wrote: Wow. I am amazed that the Church has created two completely independent calendaring systems with no interface between them.

Hear, Hear!!

russellhltn wrote:There is a button for each activity on the youth calendar that can place that activity on the ward/stake calendar, so it saves you from manually entering it.

Which ward calendar? Does that magic button let you choose which calendar?

We have finally trained the parents of our youth to diligently watch the ward calendar. And none of the youth activities are getting there, because they have a calendar of their own.

If you look further up this thread, I asked the same thing because if they put something n this Youth calendar, it doesn't give them a resource in the building and does not take the resource out f the calendaring system. I think folks will be very confused.

lajackson wrote:Which ward calendar? Does that magic button let you choose which calendar?

I've not used it, so I'm not sure. If you have edit access to more than one calendar, I assume it asks.