hello,

it's not directly possible, but could be achieved with a bit of custom coding.

you see, you can already define different calendars, and let users choose to see them or not, but the only access restrictions to the calendars are "public" or "private"

looks like you're looking for an in-between option, which would allow to create calendars and events "only for a particular user group" (a user group defined in easysocial).

Thank you for your quick reply. I read through the documentation but didn't see how to set up the rights for someone to create public calendar entries. I'm basically trying to figure out how we could use this the way the project is developed today. Few more questions:

1. Are public calendar entries set with the same Joomla group type - for example all users in the Administrator group can create public entries, etc.? Or can only one joomla user / account create entries into the public calendar? If we have 15 - 20 teachers, would all of them have to be in the administrator group like example above? Or would we have to create one shared account that they would have to log into in order to change the calendar (hopefully not).

2. Can you add public entries into the front end or must all public entries be done from the backend?

Our goal is to give each teacher the ability to manage their class / group calendar of events. We also have a school administrator that needs the ability to oversee / modify the calendar as necessary (this likely won't happen very often). For us, it is OK if everyone sees all of the calendars. It would be nice if they could filter on the ones that they belong to in order to make it easier to read.

Thanks again!

1. no, they all can create public entries. no need to be in a specific user group.

2. you can add them in the frontend.

as I mentioned, since there's no group filter, everyone who can enter events can enter them in all calendars set as "public"... not only theirs.

OK - that should work fine.

Another question - can anyone create a public event on the calendar? i.e. we do not want students to create a public event that would show up on our school calendar without first approving it. (we have some students that would probably take this a little too far ). How can we filter so that only a select group can make public events?

Thanks

there's no such option.. you can either allow or not allow users adding events on the frontend, but that will apply to all frontend users.
if your teachers have backend access, then you can block event creation on frontend and simply allow it in the backend.

otherwise, as I mentioned before, some custom coding would be needed...

We use EasySocial as well and I am after something similar for Groups, etc...