Use filters to create a variety of specific calendars using your Planning Center (PCO) church events.

Part 1: Finding these filters

Step 1: After you log in, click on Calendars or Event Alerts (gold box and arrow in image below).

For example, if we click on Calendars, the Your Calendars page will open.

Step 2: Choose the calendar or events list you wish to modify.

Step 3: If you are not already in the Setup tab, click on Setup (brown box below).

Step 4: Scroll down until you see Events Filtering.

Part 2: Setting these filters

Events Filtering

Toggle on or off the buttons:

Show hidden events: Display events you have marked in PCO as hidden.
Include group-specific events: Display events connected to a particular group.
Show events with images only button to just show those item which have some sort of picture or other image. Read more + examples here.
Merge recurring events: show only 1 occurrence of events which repeat.

NOTE: Event Alerts --> Does not have the Merge recurring events button as not relevant.

'Group' now appears as Group (via Feed) or Group (via Connection) depending on how you set it up in PCO.

Approval Status
We offer a choice of 3 Approval status options - Approved, Pending, or Rejected.

Featured: A way to set featured events...see below

Add filter

This is where you organize your main filtering. You use the connectors 'and' + 'or' to mix and match between your PCO filters.

NOTE: If you do not select any filters, Display.Church will pull in all events from your PCO information as long as the events are approved.

This filtering logic is powerful (and a little complex). So we have given it its own article: https://help.display.church/en/articles/7890338-setup-events-filtering-logic

The Featured filter

In PCO, in the Settings tab, you set the visibility to 'Featured' (blue box and arrow in image below). Display.Church can access this data via the PCO API.

Click on the blue Update button at the bottom to save your selections.

Part 3: Displaying these filters

Show filter names & Filters

Setup: Events Filtering - Calendars & Event Alerts (CCB)

Setup: Show hidden events (PCO)

Setup: Events Filtering - Calendars & Event Alerts (GCal)

Setup: Events Filtering - Calendars & Event Alerts (Breeze)

Display.Church: How it works with Planning Center (PCO)