User Guide

Browsing events

The Home screen shows upcoming community events in date and time order for your selected city. Users can choose a default city in Profile and temporarily switch city from the Home screen.

Search & filter

Use the search bar to find events by keyword, suburb, organiser, audience type, speaker or event type. Tap the filter icon to narrow results by time period, organiser type, audience type, host or suburb.

Notifications

Tap the bell icon to see upcoming alerts grouped into Today and Tomorrow. A section only appears when it has events.

Navigation

The bottom bar gives you: Home, My Events, the green + button to add a new event, Favourites, and your Profile.

Collapsed view

Each card shows a date chip (day, month, weekday), a thumbnail (the event's poster if uploaded, otherwise the organiser's logo), an audience badge, and an organiser badge — Centre or Private.

Expanded view

Tap any card to expand it and see the Hijri date, full address, speaker/reciter names, and organiser details.

From the expanded card you can: Share the event (with poster image) via WhatsApp, SMS or any app; get Directions via Google Maps; or tap the heart icon to Save it to Favourites.

Poster zoom

If a poster image was uploaded, tap the thumbnail to view it full screen.

Step 1 — Choose event mode

Tap the green + button in the bottom navigation. Choose Single Event. Admins and Super Admins can also choose Recurring Event; normal users can see recurring events but the option is disabled.

Step 2 — Basic details

Choose an event type such as Majlis, Milad, Prayers, Dua, Prayers & Amal, lecture or other custom program type. Enter the subject, host name and organiser. If you choose a centre, the host name is filled from the centre name. Private and other-centre events can still use the "on behalf of" host fields.

Step 3 — Date

Enter the date as a regular calendar date, or toggle to Hijri date entry and pick the Islamic date directly — the app calculates the matching Gregorian date based on the community's moon-sighting overrides.

Step 4 — Time

Choose Fixed Time to enter the start and optional end time manually, or choose Prayer Time (Variable) to select Fajr, Zohrain, Asr, Maghreb or Isha. Prayer-time events can use a positive or negative offset in 30-minute steps, and the app calculates the actual time from the event date and selected address.

Step 5 — Audience, address, notes & poster

Select the audience type — Gents, Ladies, Kids, or Family Event. Use the address field's Google Maps autocomplete to set the venue; this is required for directions, map view and prayer-time calculation. Optional notes are shown on event cards and included in generated share messages. You can also upload a poster image for the card thumbnail.

Step 6 — On behalf of someone else

Tick "Adding on behalf of someone else" if you're submitting for another host — you'll still own and manage the event.

Step 7 — Submit

For Majlis events, you can also add a speaker and multiple reciters, including Hadees-e-Kisa, Soz, Salam, Noha, Manqebat and other recitation types. Reciters can be reordered so they appear in the event flow. The app highlights any missing mandatory date, time or address before saving. After a successful save, it confirms the event was added, clears the form and returns to the Home screen.

For repeated programs

Recurring Events are available to Admins and Super Admins. Choose daily, weekly, monthly or yearly recurrence, then choose the interval and either an end date or number of occurrences. Daily, weekly and monthly recurring events are limited to one year ahead. Yearly recurring events are limited to five occurrences.

A preview shows every date that will be created before submission. Submitting creates separate event records for each occurrence, while keeping them linked as one recurring series for administration.

Admins can filter recurring events in the Admin Dashboard and edit, deactivate or delete an entire recurring series where required.

Managing your events

Go to My Events to see everything you've created. From here you can edit, copy, share or delete any of your own events.

Viewing events on a map

Logged-in users can switch between List and Map view from the Home screen city selector row. The map shows eligible events using the saved address coordinates and helps you see which areas have programs before planning travel.

Marker colours

Markers use audience colours where available: ladies-only events are pink, gents-only events are blue, family events are teal, and kids or other events use the default marker style. Tap a marker to see the event and open directions.

Sharing multiple events at once

Bulk Share lets organisers select several upcoming events and generate one formatted message ready for WhatsApp, SMS or other sharing apps. The detailed format includes full event details where permitted. The brief format lists host, date, time and suburb only.

Generated messages group events under Centre Programs and Private Programs, include notes where entered, and finish with the app download link so recipients can install Community Events Australia.

Calendar Sync

Go to the Calendar view and use calendar sync to subscribe to the Community Events feed where supported. If a browser or native wrapper blocks one-tap subscription, the app can provide a calendar feed URL or downloadable .ics file as a fallback.

Calendar entries include host name, event type, date, calculated or fixed time, address and audience type. Hidden events are excluded.

Email reminders

A daily reminder email may be sent around 7:00 PM for upcoming programs, where reminders are enabled. Admin and Super Admin users may also receive separate administrator alerts, which can be turned off separately in Profile.

Managing organisations

Admins and Super Admins can manage registered organisations from the Admin Dashboard. Organisation logos are used on event cards when an event does not have its own poster. Built-in organisations can be refreshed and updated with corrected names, logos and locations.

Other admin tools

The Admin Dashboard includes event management, ownership transfer, recurring-series filters, Hijri calendar correction, user management, calendar sync visibility, stream tools and email controls. Some actions, such as user export, are restricted to Super Admins.