Public/Private Feature for Events

We LOVE the new public/private option on opportunities, but also desperately need it on events! Because we work with so many corporate partners and non-corporate groups, we are constantly having to use advanced finds to make events (and formerly opportunities) private. The new public/private feature on opportunities has saved us a ton of headaches, and we'd love to see it on events as well.


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Hi Jennifer, 


Thanks for reaching out! I currently don't have an update on this requested Enhancement but I'm going to record this request for our future internal Enhancements meetings. I will be sure to let Development know through recording your request that there are additional admins requesting the ability to make events private.


I appreciate your input here and the use case example you've provided! 


Best, 

Abby T. 

Onboarding Specialist 

Galaxy Digital 

Has any progress been made on this topic? We are having an invite only Volunteer and Donor Appreciation breakfast and would love to use the event feature, but need to be able to make the event private and only accessible for those with the link. Please update! 

Hi Theresa and Patrice,


I appreciate you both taking the time to share your support for this suggestion. I have added both of your thoughts to our existing notes which can be considered during one of our upcoming team enhancement meetings. 


Additionally, I appreciate you sharing your idea, Gina. It is always great to see Site Admins sharing information with each other and coming up with clever strategies to achieve their goals!


Thanks again to all of you for reaching out with your thoughts and I will be happy to provide updates here with any information about this suggestion moving forward. 


With gratitude, 


Jeff Rodell (He/Him)

Client Onboarding Specialist

Galaxy Digital

One of the work-arounds we have found for "private" events is to only use the event feature for our organization. When we were given the opportunity to turn off the event feature for our agencies on the portal a few years ago (which the agencies seldom used), we kept the feature only for our organization (that we access as the site managers). That way, none of our events are in the site's navigation and are only seen if we share a link to all of the events or a single event. We also, when posting an event, toggle off our events so they are not shared on the university and state-wide portals that our hub feeds into. Just passing that along if it helps anyone else.  - Gina, HOI United Way 

Definitely a feature we would like for a volunteer recognition event for internal programs, so not open to the public. I hate to have to send them to a google form rather than track them on our site and see how many attend etc. We can invite them by the number of hours tracked in the system, which would give them the incentive to use the software portal more and log their hours.

We would love to see this feature developed. If you have multiple user groups associated with your organization with targeted events then the Events feature is somewhat useless. I recently wanted to use the Event section of Galaxy to create the invite for our annual appreciation dinner for one of our user groups. I could not because all users would be invited. 

Any chance this is going to happen anytime soon?

Hi Courtney, 


Thank you for taking the time to show your support for this suggestion! I have added your thoughts to our existing request notes which will be reviewed by our team during one of our upcoming enhancement meetings. I will be happy to report back with any updates that I receive.


Thank you!


Jeff Rodell (He/Him)

Client Onboarding Specialist

Galaxy Digital

We are just starting to explore the use of the events feature. As echoed above though it is limiting that it cannot be made private. It seems like it would be more streamline for party and training tracking than making an opportunity. But very few of the events that we do are open to the public. 

Hi Camille and Thelma,


Thank you for taking the time to check up on this enhancement request! 


At this time, we have not implemented an option to make Events private or that allows Events to be shared only with a specific User Group. For now, our recommendation is to utilize Opportunities in order to take advantage of privacy and user group features! If you have questions about how to best utilize Opportunities for your specific goals, please contact support@galaxydigital.com for further guidance.


We are always looking for opportunities to improve the software for our clients, so please keep an eye out for future enhancements!


All the best,

Caitlin 

Is this option available? I would like to create an event for volunteers to RSVP.  It would be private and directed towards a user group.

did this ever come about, because I'd love to have a feature to make an event private as well?

Hi Jacqueline, 


I've updated the request to include your voice! Do you have any specific examples of events you would want to be private and why they can't be opportunities for me to add to your two cents? The more details the better for the development team to consider. 


Thanks!

Ali 

We would love to be able to use the Events feature however, without the private option we can rarely utilize it.

Hi Calondra, 


I will add your voice to the request. Thanks for posting! 


I hope you have a great Tuesday. 


~Ali 

I would definitely love the private option for events as well.

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