Plan your schedule
Dashboard
Create an event with its artwork, destination and recurrence. Publish it to display it across your network.
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Events Board
Plan events in the dashboard, display them on all boards and let visitors choose reminders. Events Board 1.0 shares events and subscriptions across your network’s boards.
GETTING STARTED
The steps at a glance
- Activate your licence and receive the pack
- Place your first board
- Publish an event in the dashboard
- Welcome subscribers and track reminders
Understand the objects
At your venues and partner locations
Boards
Every board format shares one schedule. A notecard can identify the licensed network owner when another avatar owns the board.
Visitors choose
Subscriptions
Touch an event to subscribe, unsubscribe or open its destination. The subscription is shared and remains valid for future occurrences.
One sender for the network
Reminders
An available board sends reminders to subscribers. Another can take over; shared tracking prevents duplicate sends between boards.
Questions & troubleshooting
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How do I install a board?Events Board · Start
- After receiving the Events Board pack, rez a board using the licensed avatar. Different sizes have the same functions.
- The board connects automatically. Wait for registration, then open Events Board → Boards in your workspace to check it appears.
- Create and publish your first event in Events. The board refreshes automatically; normally allow about a minute.
- Boards do not request payment permissions. To adapt an older standalone build, see the migration article below.
Where do I manage events and managers?Events Board · Use service
- In Events Board, Events holds the schedule; Boards enables or suspends objects; Subscribers and Reminders track usage.
- The owner grants Events Board access in Team and access. Each manager uses their own account and permissions.
- The board’s Dashboard menu opens management for authorised users. Solutions HUD also lets you view and manage events according to your permissions.
How do reminders work?Events Board · Use service
- Visitors choose one event or all current and future events in the network. Newsletter subscription remains separate.
- Reminders are scheduled 1 hour, 30 minutes, 5 minutes before and at the start. New subscriptions receive upcoming reminders; past ones are not replayed.
- One available board sends reminders. Another takes over if needed, normally within about three minutes.
- Recipients in the board’s region receive a private local message; otherwise the board sends an IM. Web-generated replies use the avatar’s supported language, with English as fallback.
- Second Life does not confirm IM receipt. A sending incident may cause a missed reminder; the system avoids blindly resending it.
Why does my board not connect?Events Board · Troubleshoot
- Check the Events Board licence is active and the board is enabled in Events Board → Boards.
- Without a notecard, the object owner is the expected licence holder. With Events Board Config, check OWNER_UUID.
- Check scripts are running and allowed on the land. After replacing scripts, check compilation before resetting Main.
- On network errors, the board keeps its last valid display and retries progressively. Repeated resets are unnecessary.
How do I get the licence, pack and Solutions HUD?Events Board · Start
- Events Board is a standalone offer. When on sale, the Solutions Licences terminal shows its price, duration and terms to confirm before payment.
- The solution pack and Solutions HUD are delivered together. The licence terminal also offers redelivery of objects covered by your licence.
- The licence covers the holder’s network. Visitors browse and subscribe free; they do not buy a licence.
- An expired or suspended licence blocks new board exchanges. Renew through Solutions Licences.
Can I place boards using another avatar or at a partner’s location?Events Board · Start
- Yes. Add a notecard named exactly Events Board Config to the board’s root.
- Write OWNER_UUID= followed by the licence holder’s Second Life UUID. Without this notecard, the object owner identifies the network.
- After registration, the board appears in the holder’s network. The network owner can disable it from the dashboard.
- The holder’s UUID identifies the network; it does not grant web account access. Grant manager permissions separately in Team and access.
How do I create and publish an event?Events Board · Use service
- Open Events → Create event. Enter a title, optional subtitle and poster texture. Set your usual destination in Configuration as Region/x/y/z.
- Leave Alternative destination for this event empty to use the default, or enter Region/x/y/z if it is elsewhere. Default destination changes apply to events with an empty field; individual destinations stay unchanged.
- Choose the SLT date and time, duration in minutes and recurrence. Without a default location, the event destination is required.
- Leave Published event unchecked to keep a draft. Check it and save to display the event on boards.
- The form accepts 80 characters for the title and 120 for the subtitle. Boards show their first 24 characters; the dialog provides details.
- Ended events stay in the dashboard but disappear from boards. The service holds up to 200 events: remove old entries you no longer need.
- After saving, the site asks boards to refresh over HTTP. If a board cannot receive this request, regular sync retrieves the changes.
Which time should I use and how do I set recurrence?Events Board · Use service
- Dates use Second Life time (SLT), the Los Angeles time zone. The service handles seasonal clock changes.
- Choose Once, Weekly, Every two weeks, Monthly on the same date or Monthly on the same weekday.
- For monthly recurrence on the same date, the 31st becomes the last day of a shorter month, then returns to the 31st when available.
- Same weekday retains its ordinal position, such as the second Saturday. A missing fifth Saturday skips to the next month that has one.
- The 12/24-hour setting changes board formatting, not the schedule’s time zone.
How does a visitor subscribe or unsubscribe?Events Board · Use service
- Touch an event row, then Subscribe or Unsubscribe. All parts of the row open the same event.
- All events covers current and future events. Unsubscribe on a row excludes that event; Unsubscribe in All events removes all event reminders without cancelling the newsletter.
- Subscriptions in the board menu opens All events and Newsletter, even without a displayed event. Newsletter requires separate consent; existing event subscribers are never added automatically.
- These choices are shared by all boards in the same network. Subscribing again to All events clears event exclusions.
Do different board sizes show the same content?Events Board · Use service
- Yes: every network board uses the same schedule. The build determines the row count; visitor functions stay the same.
- Events are ordered by their next occurrence. The main preview shows an ongoing event or otherwise the next event.
- Page selection is local to each board. It does not change the schedule or subscriptions.
- Shared settings include accent colour, time format and default destination. Each event can override the destination.
How do I suspend an event, board or reminders?Events Board · Use service
- To hide an event while keeping its details and subscriptions, edit it and uncheck Published event.
- In Boards, Disable suspends only the selected object. Other boards stay available.
- In Configuration, suspend the whole service, disable reminders or disable only the local start announcement.
- When enabled, the local announcement is sent by the reminder board. It is not repeated on all parcels.
- Deleting an event also deletes its subscriptions and reminder history. Use draft to keep them.
Why is my event missing or showing the wrong time?Events Board · Troubleshoot
- Check Published event, SLT date and duration. An ended event without recurrence no longer appears on boards.
- Browse the board’s pages. Changes are notified over HTTP; if unavailable, wait for the next sync. Smaller formats show fewer rows at once.
- Check all boards use the same network holder and the poster texture has a valid UUID.
- Compare your entry with Second Life time, not your computer’s local time. The 12/24-hour format cannot fix a date entered in the wrong zone.
Why did a subscriber not receive a reminder?Events Board · Troubleshoot
- Check the event is published, service and reminders are enabled, and at least one board is connected.
- In Subscribers, check the subscription to this event. Subscribing after a reminder time does not send that past reminder.
- Reminders shows messages assigned to a board. It does not prove avatar receipt or reading.
- If all boards are absent, none sends messages. When they return, only still-relevant deadlines are processed.
How do I migrate an older standalone board to Events Board 1.0?Events Board · Start
- The connected version uses a web schedule: recreate old events in the dashboard. Standalone data and subscriptions are not imported automatically.
- In the root, remove Access, Data, Display, Editor and Reminder. Install Main, Board, Reminders, Newsletter and Buffer from the connected version; keep the compatible text renderer.
- Build rows run from Picture 1 to Picture 8 without gaps; Picture 11 is the preview. Icon N-1 and Icon N-2 are the date and time for row N.
- Managers are now configured in the dashboard. The old notecard manager list is not imported.
- Compile scripts, reset Main and test subscribing from two boards. A ready-to-use build only needs to be rezzed.
Does a reset erase events or subscriptions?Events Board · Troubleshoot
- No. Connected events and subscriptions are stored on the server. Resetting a board restarts its connection.
- Changing the object owner or notecard holder may link the board to another network. Check the holder before changing this setting.
- For help, provide your UUID, the board, attempted action, event name and displayed message. Never send tokens or passwords.
How do I send a newsletter and track its statistics?Events Board · Use service
- Add a saved notecard with copy and transfer permissions to the board contents using the normal object editing rights.
- The licence holder and authorized managers have Send newsletter. Choose Send, a notecard, then Send now. Remove one deletes one notecard; Clear deletes all after confirmation, keeping configuration and scripts.
- The board progressively sends batches of eight to newsletter subscribers present when the campaign starts. Opt-outs are checked before each batch. Clicks and reminders remain available during sending.
- After a reset, Resume continues only pending offers on that board. Cancel send cancels further offers. Keep the same notecard throughout the campaign.
- Statistics shows subscribers, campaigns, offered, pending and unconfirmed notecards. Details explain opt-outs and interruptions. Second Life does not confirm receipt: an unconfirmed offer is never automatically repeated.