Visual Space manual, Events, Find And Follow Events
Use this walkthrough to find an event that matters to you, read its full context, share your attendance plans, and keep a personal shortcut for later. The journey may begin in Events, on an About page, or in Search, but the event's linked article remains the durable place for its details and discussion.
Use this walkthrough to find an event that matters to you, read its full context, share your attendance plans, and keep a personal shortcut for later. The journey may begin in Events, on an About page, or in Search, but the event's linked article remains the durable place for its details and discussion.
Start In The Right Community Area
Events follows the structure of the community. Before browsing, open the space, subspace, or activity that owns the occasion. The Events app shows the published events for that current area, so changing areas also changes the list you are viewing.
You need access to the event's area to open it or respond. Sign in before starting if you want to choose an attendance response or save the event with View Later.
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Open Events - Use the current area's apps to open Events. Look first at the full active cards, which represent upcoming and ongoing occasions.
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Check the area - Confirm that you are in the space, subspace, or activity where the work is happening. If the event is more focused than the whole community, it may live in a subspace or activity instead.
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Read the card - Use the schedule, event title, author, and attendance picture to decide whether the occasion is relevant. Active cards also keep the response choices close to the plan.
Events places past occasions under Completed Events. Those compact cards are useful for recovering context, but they are not the place to make a new attendance choice.
The current area combines full active-event decisions with compact routes back to completed occasions.
Discover An Event From Elsewhere
You do not have to begin in the Events app. Visual Space can surface published events where people already explore a community or look for a known subject.
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Scan an About page - A space, subspace, or activity About page may show a compact, interest-ranked set of events. Each preview includes its schedule, the current About-page context, any activity context shown, and attendance counts. Select a preview to open the linked article.
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Search by subject - Open Search, enter a useful title, keyword, community name, or event-related term, and choose the Events filter when you want to narrow mixed results.
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Compare Search results - Use the schedule, author, space or area, description, and attendance counts to distinguish similar events. Select the result that fits to open its linked article, then use its full or compact Events card to confirm whether it is active or completed.
About and Search help you judge interest, but their attendance figures are context, not response controls. When you are ready to answer, return to the active card in Events for the event's area.
Read The Event Article Before Answering
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Open the event - Select its card in Events, its About-page preview, or its Search result. Each route opens the same linked event article, where the quick summary expands into the plan you are being invited to join.
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Review the plan - Check the full schedule, purpose, agenda, preparation notes, links, and any other guidance the author has provided.
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Look for continuing context - Comments, linked posts, linked articles, reactions, and Awards may help you understand the conversation around the occasion or what happened afterward.
When the article answers your questions, return to Events in the owning area. The event should still be active if you want to record or change an attendance response.
Share Your Attendance From The Active Card
An active event offers three choices. Confirmed means you expect to attend, Tentative keeps your interest visible while plans are unsettled, and Declined tells the coordinator not to expect you.
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Find the full active card - Return to Events in the same space, subspace, or activity. Do not use the compact completed card or attendance counts shown in About or Search.
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Choose your response - Select Confirmed, Tentative, or Declined on the card. Your choice becomes highlighted and the corresponding total changes.
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Verify the result - Check that only one response is selected. Visual Space remembers your current choice when you return to the event.
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Keep it current - Select another response to replace the first one. Select the highlighted response again if you want to clear it without choosing a replacement.
Your answer is a planning signal, not a reservation or guarantee that plans cannot change. For a fuller explanation of the three states, see Attendance.
Save A Personal Shortcut With View Later
Save the event when you want an easy route back to its article. View Later is a personal cross-product tool; it does not publish the event, change its area, alter your attendance response, or affect what other members can see.
Saving is independent of attendance. You can save an event before deciding, keep it after declining, or remove the shortcut without changing the event itself.
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Open the event menu - Right-click or Control-click the active or completed event card on desktop. On mobile, long-press the card.
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Save the event - Choose View Later. This option is available to signed-in users.
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Confirm the saved state - Open the menu again if you want to verify the change. The action now reads Remove View Later.
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Return when needed - Open the shared View Later panel from your tools and select the saved event. It opens the linked article, where its current details and discussion remain available.
!Saved Space Event menu showing Remove View Later beside the unchanged active card
Remove View Later confirms that this seeded event already has a personal shortcut without changing attendance or event visibility.
Revisit The Event After It Ends
Once the event's end time passes, Events moves it from the active full-card area into Completed Events. Its smaller card no longer offers attendance responses, but the community record remains useful.
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Return to the owning area - Open Events in the same space, subspace, or activity and find the event under Completed Events.
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Open the compact card - Select it to revisit the linked article, including any notes, discussion, or related material added after the occasion.
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Use your saved shortcut - If the event is still in View Later, select it there when that is faster than browsing the completed list.
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Remove the shortcut when finished - Open the event menu and choose Remove View Later, or remove the saved item from the View Later panel.
You have completed the journey when you can recognize the event's area and status, have recorded the attendance choice that matches your plans, and can return to its article before or after completion.
If You Cannot Find Or Follow An Event
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The Events list looks unrelated - Check the current area. Events is scoped to the open space, subspace, or activity rather than combining every community event into one list.
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The event appears in Search but not in the open Events list - Use the result's space or area context, open its article, then navigate to the owning area before looking for its active card.
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There is no response choice - The event may already be completed, or you may be viewing attendance counts on an About page or in Search. Respond from the full active Events card instead.
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View Later is missing - Confirm that you are signed in, then reopen the event's context menu using the desktop or mobile gesture described above.
