Log in to your creativetango account at https://www

Or just use your associated gmail account https://www.gmail.com

About North Texas tango teacher and event sponsor creativetango.com tango calendar accounts.

You can always get to this page of directions using the "Calendar Login" right hand menu link from any creativetango.com page.

Teachers and sponsors are responsible for their own updates. You can only update calendars

1) by logging in to your creativetango.com account
2) by logging into your associated gmail account
or
3) by requesting John to make changes. If you ask John, you have to wait on his convenience, which may take hours, days or sometimes over a week, so please don't wait to the last minute. This is a good incentive to share your calendar duties with others in your entourage who can cover for you.

Gmail accounts can be added to calendars by request to John or by request to another calendar manager who has rights to add users. If you do not have a gmail account to manage a calendar, additional creativetango accounts may be created only by request to John. This means calendar owners can assign their updates to anyone in their entourage who's willing and capable to update the calendar and has a gmail or creativetango.com account. So long as they have a login associated to the calendar and minimal skill adding and updating calendar items in a google calendar, anyone can add or update calendar items.

You can change the password on a creativetango.com account, but if you change it, you have to remember what you changed it to. John does not have access to changed passwords. If you changed it and can't remember it, you'll need to reset it following the readily available "forgot password" link. John does not know or want to know your gmail passwords, so with those, you are completely on your own.

John will give you, upon request, the html code to place calendars of your own events on your own web pages; if you use this system, you will be able to make simultaneous updates to as many websites as subscribe to your calendar. If you do not understand what this means, the person who codes your website should. Your students and friends can subscribe to your calendar (any calendar they wish) if they have a google calendar account or use any web dav enabled computer, pda or phone calendar. iCal, which is included with recent Macs, is just one example of such a calendar.

Creativetango.com consolidates the individual calendars that result from your updates here: Milongas Classes Events Other cities

More categories may be added.

Additional help (beyond what's below) is available by clicking help at the top right corner of any calendar account screen.

How to login and make your updates

OR login to an gmail account that's been associated to your calendar https://www.gmail.com

Once logged in, be sure you click into the calendar pane by clicking on the word, "Calendar" in the google menu area. Add new events to existing calendars with the Create Events link on the upper left. Add new calenders, share your calendars with creativetango.com or others, and get the code you need to embed your calendars in your own website by clicking Settings on the upper right

To edit an existing event, click on it in your own calendar. It doesn't matter if you're in a creativetango.com account or an associated gmail account that has permission to edit the calendar. If you're already logged in to gmail or creativetango.com account in most browsers, you can even just go to the associated calendars on creativetango.com and edit any calendar item by clicking on it.

Click any text area to get an editable field

The background color changes for fields you are editing. If the field you want to edit has the background color, click on it to edit. All editable fields are selected in the picture because I clicked on them individually.

If your address is 2714-1/2 Greenville, please enter 2714 in the "Where" field, or it will not map properly. (Using "1/2" throws the map off.) The fields are yours to change as you like. However, please keep the "What" simple." What" shows on the creativetango.com calendar. Lengthy items may displace others, and by doing so find themselves displaced in turn. How much of the"What" field shows varies by the viewer’s computer and browser, so rest assured that no matter how much you tweak to get the "What" you want on your computer, it could look different on someone else's computer.

I hope you agree that level or description (e.g. Intermediate or Fantasia) is the most appropriate "What" item to put for classes.

Please be sure to include your contact information in the Description. I have found that when I enter my email address in the calendar, I have not had any issues with spammers as a result. Even so, I did not enter email addresses when I set up the calendar, choosing instead to leave it to you to decide which, if any, email addresses to include.

Please enter accurate address including zip code in the "Where" field .

Please enter accurate dates and times in the "When" field.

You may also add your website address. If you include http:// it will show in most browsers as a clickable link, but may not generally be clickable if you don't.

Please be sure to ALWAYS select the correct calendar. Otherwise you classes may end up in the events calendar, or worse, on your own personal default calendar and thus not shared to creativetango.com at all. This is the most common mistake beginners to this calendar system make.

Please review to insure that things appear as you wish on the calendar pages on creativetango.com.

Milongas Classes Events

If you make a change to a repeated event, a popup will ask for more information. This is real handy for changing one event only out of a continuing series, such as for example when a Dunn Bros milonga moved to a different week of the month for one month and then returned to its regular schedule.

Save is your best friend. Creativetango.com is pretty good about saving for you, but to be safe, please save all your hard work spent entering or updating an event. I have found the system to be incredibly reliable over many years of use with several organizations, but I do know some people who forget to save.

You may create additional calendars. They will only be shared on creativetango.com if you share them with me (john@creativetango.com), and tell me by email where you would like them to appear. But you do not have to share every calendar with me. You could keep private calendars for yourself, your students, other purposes than tango, etc. I will probably take a long time to add them to creativetango.com, because it involves complicated coding, so please allow plenty of time for me to get to it if you decide you need to add a new calendar.

Click Settings in the upper right corner

There are loads of settings on the general page, but the ones that interest us are on the Calendars tab

Clicking on a calendar name takes you to calendar details. Note that you have control of the Calendar name. In getting everything in place, I relied heavily on one or two letter codes to group calendars by name according to teacher/sponsor Eg. R for Reese. FW for Terri and Paula and their successors in Fort Worth.

Now that the structure is in place, the names of the calendars don’t matter so much to me, so long as they are descriptive and friendly. The only restriction I impose is that you may not use is anything that falls alphabetically before “All.” The first name on the list identifies the calendar that shows up on creativetango.com, and I insist that these be consistently descriptive of the combined calendar. If your name is Aardvark, you will simply have to use a nickname or some other descriptive label.

You can only change the name of your own calendars, and remember that whatever name you choose will show up on CreativeTango.com.

I hope many of you may choose to take advantage of the calendar system by embedding your own calendars on your own websites. I’d appreciate it if you’d please link from your website calendar pages to the consolidated calendar on creativetango.com. I intend to maintain an inclusive universal north Texas tango calendar in the tradition of tejastango.com, and I believe this system adds value to your websites and an extra incentive to keep up to date by being able to post to two or more websites at once.