Customize styles for calendar and event email

In this topic you'll learn

• What types of email are sent from your Trumba® calendar.
• How to add an email spud and customize its styles.
• How the style settings map to the spud attributes
• How styles differ between calendar and email spuds

Trumba email types

Trumba email falls into one of two categories: calendar email or event email.

Calendar email

• Scheduled (digest) or one-time email that you set up in the Email Publishing Wizard.

Event email

• Reminder messages that are sent at a user-specified time when someone requests an email reminder from your calendar.
• Event details that are sent when you choose Forward to Friends from your editing environment or a visitor chooses it from your published calendar.
• Event details that are sent when a visitor chooses Email me event info from your calendar.
• Confirmation email that is sent to you and a visitor when the visitor submits an event.
• All email that is associated with invitations (initial invitation, reminders, updates, and so on).

In the Publishing Control Panel, you can add and customize spuds for any of these types of email. Customizations can include modifying styles and other settings, as well as adding a header or footer, in which you can enter the HTML code you want, including adding images or logos.

Add an email spud and customize its styles

1. In your Trumba account, display your published calendar and click Publish.
2. In the Publishing Control Panel, do one of the following:
   • Click the Email tab. In the Event Email section, click Add an Event Email.
   • In the Calendar Email section, click Add a Calendar Email.
3. In the Add Spud page, select the type of event email you want to customize, or select the calendar email spud, and then click OK.
4. Back in the Publishing Control Panel, for the email spud you just added, click Edit Settings & Styles.
5. On the Settings tab, add a custom email banner and/or privacy statement if you want. How do I add custom email banners and privacy statements?
6. For Include legend, select No if you do not want to include a calendar colors legend in your email message.

   

   In this calendar email message, the legend is outlined in red.

7. On the Styles tab, enter your settings for the style attributes you want. How do I know which setting does what?
8. Click OK.

How style settings map to email spud attributes

The following picture uses the Email Me spud to show how sections in the style sheet apply to the spud.

A	Body Title	D	Event Info
B	Body Message	E	Top Rule
C	Header	F	Bottom Rule
Not shown: Privacy statement inherits Body Width setting.

How styles differ between calendar and email spuds

For the Body, Message, and Rules sections of a Trumba email message, calendar email and all event email spuds contain the same settings that you can customize in each spud. For the presentation of the relevant event details, differences between calendar and event email affect how you can customize the event data.

Event email contains text-based information for specific events that a visitor requests from your published calendar. You can edit the style attributes for this text in the Header and Event Info sections of the event email spud's style sheet.

Calendar email, on the other hand, contains the relevant portion of your calendar. This calendar section acts almost like a separate spud, because:

• It brings in the calendar data directly from the data source.
• It is interactive, enabling your recipients to click event descriptions to see details and add your events from the email message to their own calendars.

Because the calendar itself is displayed in calendar email, the spud's style sheet settings do not affect that section. In that calendar section, you can customize event background and text colors by clicking Edit Calendar Colors on the Publish Settings tab in the Publishing Control Panel.

Other attributes of the calendar, however, such as font and text size, are not yet customizeable. Trumba Development is working to provide access to these attributes in the near future.