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I’ve been asked to add a calendar to an existing EE site and I just had some questions regarding the calendar workflow.

I’ve gone through the calendar tags in the user guide and had a search around the forums - but I still haven’t had the ‘sought after head clearing DING’ that I’m looking for before I proceed.

I read through the events calendar in the wiki (http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Events_Calendar/) so I understand how that works - but in terms of implementing a calendar into an existing site and their entries how are people managing that?

Can events be included in news submissions or are news entries and an event calendar two very separate things?

For instance if I’m submitting an entry about an up and coming event or a start of class term and the entry is a news item; is there a way to link that news item as an event and that event be displayed on the calendar?

Or is the workflow that I submit the news item saying that the event happens on ‘x’ date with the other relevant text and content I want to include and THEN I make another entry in the events calendar weblog, selecting the date in the publish calendar and then submit that?

For instance if I’m submitting an entry about an up and coming event or a start of class term and the entry is a news item; is there a way to link that news item as an event and that event be displayed on the calendar?

You can reference any weblog in your events calendar, the one showstopper (and to date my biggest gripe with EE) is that you can only display the {title} field.
So if you want to reference news items in your calendar just do:

{exp:weblog:calendar switch="calendarToday|calendarCell" weblog="news"}

and inside your calendar do:

{entries}
{title}
{/entries}

I’m assuming here that both your weblog and template group are called news.