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Cancelling events and occurrences

Cancelling an event keeps the record but marks it as withdrawn. That’s almost always preferable to deleting — it gives staff, parents and students visibility that something was meant to …

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Editing, rescheduling and resending for approval

Events change. Times shift, locations swap, audiences expand. PortalHQ lets you edit any field on an event, but some changes are significant enough to need fresh approval. Who can edit …

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Adding locations and additional staff

Events often involve more than one venue and more than the organiser alone. The Locations and Additional staff sections let you record both, and additional staff can endorse their involvement …

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Adding catering, ICT and maintenance requirements

Beyond the basic event details, most events need some kind of operational support — meals, microphones, table layout, transport. PortalHQ tracks these as structured requirements per location, so the canteen, …

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Reviewing and approving event requests

When an event is submitted, it appears in the approval dashboard of everyone in the first approval group. As an approver, you decide whether the event moves on, returns to …

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Submitting an event for approval

A new event starts as a Draft. It’s visible only to you and doesn’t notify anyone. Submitting it moves it to Pending and starts the approval workflow. Before you submit …

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Creating recurring events

A recurring event is a single event record with a rule that generates many occurrences — for example, every Wednesday at 3 pm for Term 2. Individual occurrences can be …

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Creating a one-off event

A one-off event is a single occurrence on a specific date and time. This is the most common workflow when a staff member wants to put something on the school …

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Events Overview

All events run by the school are entered into this module and go through one or more steps of approval before being plotted on the calendar. The event organisers are …