Event's Web Stages

Active Web Stages:

• Development. Events start out in Development stage. Such events are not visible on Self-Signup Home — except to people with Admin, Agent, or Observer privileges. However admins and agents can signup people while an event is in Development stage. (Also like any other signup, such signups are displayed in the owner's Your Signups table until the event is completely over).
• Published. If and when you want to allow regular people to see the schedule and sign themselves up online, set the event's web stage to Published. In other words, this makes the event visible on everyone's Self-Signup Home until the event's signup schedule is entirely in the past.
• Self-Signups Over. This is a sub-case of Published. It causes all otherwise-available schedule items to display Signups Closed — rather than a Signup button.

Inactive Web Stages:

• Completed. Set web stage to Completed at some point after the event is over. As the 1st note implies, the exact timing depends on when you no longer think of this event as a current event.
• Out-of-date. Set an event's stage to this when you want to delete the event or when you are no longer interested in using it as the template for a future events. In other words, events in this stage do not appear in the Create-by-copying dropdown menus.

Notes:

1. You can update an event's schedules after publishing them. But for a big change, you might want to set web stage back to Development first. Similarly if you ever actually need to cancel an event before it occurs, you can set its stage back to Development.
2. A privileged user can choose the events that home pages show. On Admin Home, individual stages and all plausible combinations can be displayed. On Self-Signup Home, the choices are: all Active events, those Active events that are not yet in the past, and what unprivileged users see — those Published events that are not yet in the past.
3. Individual schedule items can be made to display Signups Closed, by setting up a Signup/Cancel Deadline for a schedule. Similarly past this deadline, a person cannot cancel a signup or change a signup form's Enter Until fields via PRESTO.