Event Description

  1. Boomer Commerce
  2. Admin User Guide
  3. Preparing an Event for the Storefront

Introduction

The Event Description is the home page of the event on the storefront.  When an event is initially created, a predefined template (established in Store Configuration\Look and Feel\Event Description appears.  Some of the content in the event description is pulled from other fields filled in for the event.  Other content will be typed over from placeholders created in the event description template.  In the end, you will end up with a custom event description for each event:

Event Description on Storefront

The editor in which the description resides is an HTML Editor.  As with all content that is displayed in a browser, in the end it is all HTML.  The editor is a user friendly way to generate HTML source behind the scenes.  Watch the video accessed from the link at the top of this page for the best way to get comfortable editing your event description content.

Editing the Event Description's Content

To edit the event's description area, open the event and select "Description" down the left hand navigation menu:

Event Description in Admin

The editor behaves similarly to a word processor but has some unique nuances because while it is displaying user-friendly content to you, it is building HTML code behind the scenes that can be displayed by a web browser.

Copying an Event Description from One Event To Another

You may want to copy a description from one event to another.  Since the Description is simply HTML text that is displayed to the user on the storefront, it may be copied by common Windows "Ctrl" commands and following these steps:

  1. Open the event that has the description you want to copy.
  2. Click "Description" down the left hand navigation menu for the event.
  3. Click on the “Source” button in the Event Description tool bar.  This will expose the raw HTML. 
  4. Click Ctrl-A to select all the text.
  5. Click Ctrl-C to copy it to your clip board memory.
  6. Now navigate to the event into which you want to copy the description and open up its event description
  7. Click the “Source” button again. 
  8. Click Ctrl-A to select all the text.
  9. Now Ctrl-V to paste what is in your memory into the event description, over the original event description.
  10. Save.