How to submit a Festival or Event to the Scotiaweb Online Listing

Required: A validated, registered user account on Scotiaweb.ca

1. After registering a user account on Scotiaweb and logging into the site you will notice a new menu item drop-down from "festivals and Events" entitled "Submit an event to Scotiaweb" Click on this link, and your browser will be directed to the events submission page. This link is also accessible via a small icon on the festivals and events page at the top right corner.

2.  Title

This is the name of the event that will appear on the list on the Festivals and Events page. Please ensure NOT to utilize special characters in this title, such as {";:&'}. Please replace any required usage of AMpersnad {&} with {and}. As well, please do not use  {'s}, simply omit the  {'} in these circumstances Example: "Smooth Herman's" should be input as "Smooth Hermans".

3. Venue

This is where you will either Select the Venue (use the button with the little house icon) or submit a new venue. You will need to first try Select Venue button, to check if the venue exists in the database already. This is easily done with the filter function - Example: select "venue" filter, type in "smooth hermans" and hit go - there is also a city filter for all venues in a particular city.

If the venue you are looking for does not already exist, you will need to "Submit a new venue" using the button with the same name. State = Province, ZIP = Postal Code on this form if required. Please enter complete information -  if a CIVIC address is not available, please use this tool to find the correct Lattitude and Longitude (this can be used regardless of Civic Address being used or not, for greater detail of the map location) - Use of Latitude and Longitude overrides Civic Address for map creation as such. Use of the tool is as follows, type in the address in the form box, and once the correct map is displayed, you can move the red indicator to different positions on the map. The Latitude and Longitude displayed always corresponds to the exact location of the indicator on the map displayed.

3. Category

The Events software allows for multiple categories to be applied to every event. This is done by selecting the first event, then pressing and holding the control key, and selecting more categories. They will turn blue when selected. The scroll bar allows for moving up and down the list of available categories. Please select the toruism region of Nova Scotia, followed by the Nova Scotia Travelway (if applicable) and then followed by the actual "type" of event. Example: An event in Sydney, would require "cape Breton" followed by "cape Breton Metro", followed by the type of event, such as "music" and then "rock" - When you are sure all the applicable categories have been selected in the drop down list, you can then move on to 4.

4. Date & Enddate - Time and Endtime

Date: This section uses a small icon for a calendar, that you can click on and select the actual date of the event (start and also finish). Time: The system uses 24 hour time in the submit form! If a particular event starts in the late evening, but does not actually finish until early morning the next day, please select the start time, and put 23:59 for the end time. You can always specify the hours in the description of the event, which comes later. Example: A Ceilidh starts at 10PM, on sepetember 1st. but does not finish until 1am the following day. - Please select start and endate of September 1st, 22:00 for start time, and 23:59 for end time, and let everyone know the times in the description of the event as being 10PM - 1AM

5. Repitition

This section is used to let the system know that an event repeats itself, for example - every week there is a farmer's market on saturday morning- If your event repeats, you can select this option, although it still in testing at this time and may not function correctly at this point in time.

6. Image

This is used for an Image associated with the event - this photo has to be of a fairly small filesize, and I would suggest using a photo editing software of some kind to ensure that its size is below 100KB before submitting it, or the system may not accept it. (this photo will appear next to the title of the event on its details page on the frontend when someone clicks on the event for more details)

7. Description

Tell anything and everything you would like about the event here (text)