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title: Event Detail Widget
description: Event Detail Widget
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# [Event Detail Widget](https://41730169.hs-sites.com/community/event-detail-widget)

 Written by [Luke Shuck](https://41730169.hs-sites.com/community/author/luke-shuck) | Oct 24, 2025 6:48:11 PM

## Purpose

Displays the Event detail from a selected calendar event.

## Features

- Displays the selected calendar event details including the event title, description, date/time, location, category tags, and provides a button to download the event to add to your local outlook calendar.
- Calendar event details are most often used in conjunction with the EventsWidget.
- Support .ics calendar format download of an event to add to calendars such as Outlook 
- Items displayed are security trimmed based on specific site user’s SharePoint permissions 
- Mobile-ready via Responsive Web Design

## Details

- **Widget Name: **** **EventDetailWidget 
- **Available With:  **Release 5.5  and above. This article is specific for the Hive version of the EventDetailWidget, for earlier version of this widget please visit [here](https://www.akumina.com/community/event-detail-widget-foundation-site-install-not-hive/).
- **Content App Type:****  **N/A 
- **Content Type:**  AkuminaCalendar 
- **Content App Name:****  ** Events
- **List Name****:****  **Calendar_AK 
- **Recommended Images Sizes:****  **N/A 
- **Dependencies:**  SharePoint

## Content

| Title | Title of the calendar event in the Event Content App list |
| --- | --- |
| Location | Displays the location on the event detail page |
| Start Date | Date and time that show up on the event  detail page |
| End Date | Date and time that show up on the event detail page |
| Description | Optional event description |
| Event Static URL | Clickable event title that displays on the event calendar |
| Featured | When checked, event is shown as a featured event and shown with a featured tag |
| Body | Text that displays in the Event Details section on the event page |
| Tags | Allows you to specify Tags associated with the event |
| Departments | Allows you to specify Departments associated with the event |
| Region | Allows you to specify Regions associated with the event |
| Meeting URL | Displays the event link for the location of the meeting to join the meeting when selected |
| Thumbnail URL | Allows you to specify an associated image and image description. |

## Properties

| Function to call before binding the UI events  | OOTB -Blank (used for widget expansion):  Name of the function called after the UI has been rendered to the screen |
| --- | --- |
| List Name  | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this widget instance  |
| Calendar Link  | N/A in HIVE 5.5 break crumbs are begin used to navigate back. |
| Use Friendly Url | Determines if the widget pulls in the friendly Url. Keep this checked |
| Function to call after fetching data | OOTB -Blank (used for widget expansion):  Name of the function called after data has been fetched by the widget. |
| Site Collection URL | Site collection URL where the SharePoint list defined in "List Name" can be found. |
| Selected list columns | SharePoint list column names that will be used to retrieve data that is displayed on this view. Example: ID,Title,Body,Tags,Region,Departments,EventDate,EndDate,Featured,Location,Meeting_x0020_URL, fAllDayEvent,fRecurrence,RecurrenceData,Duration,XMLTZone,Thumbnail_x0020_URL,Description,FriendlyUrl |

## Views

**View Name: **** **CalendarDetail (5.5 Hive Install)   
**View Description:****  **Displays the Event detail from a selected calendar event. This include the event title, description, date/time, location, category tags, and provides a button to download the event to add to your local outlook calendar.   
**View ****Preview****:****   
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