How to make an interactive Event Calendar map

Nan Zhou
Feb 14, 2022
2 min read

Updated: Apr 5

Before I go into detail on how to create an interactive Event Calendar map for your website, let's do a quick refresher on our map builder!

This is the No Code Map App 3 step builder - super intuitive and easy to pick up.

Why is it important to have a map view for Events? With majority of events going back to physical events (as opposed to virtual events), it is more important than ever, to show your customers / site visitors a consolidated map view of all the available events so they are informed on "what is happening around them".

So let's see how easily and quickly you can build a custom one using No Code Map App, including custom filters to help your customers find the right event near them!

Build an on-brand, interactive Event Locator for your website

Step 1 - Select the "Event calendar" template

Step 2 - Import your data.

1. Select your data source

There are a number of ways you can import your data:

Copy/paste from spreadsheet
Sync with Google Sheets
Sync with Airtable
Sync with Webflow CMS

Click on "Copy/paste from spreadsheet" and you will see a window pop up where you can paste in your data. In order to help you prepare your Excel data, we have included an "example.csv" so you will know exactly how to set up your dataset.

Or you can sync with your Google Sheets, Webflow CMS or Airtable.

In the your data, you can include standard information as well custom fields like:

Event name
Venue
Address
Date
Time
Description
Phone
Website
Theme
Features
Image link
Call-to-action link

2. Select data fields

You can import up to 50 columns of custom data (whatever you want - just make sure you have column headers).
It can self-detect information-based columns (e.g. address, phone etc) vs filterable data (e.g. Theme, Date etc)
You can also include call-to-action and image link columns and auto-generate call-to-action buttons and bulk import images

Once you have imported your data, the No Code Map App smart builder will:

Automatically map your data based on your "location" or "address" column;
Automatically create custom map filters based on your dataset (yes, you read it right, any text filter be it single or multi-value filters. Later on we will also allow number filters);
Locations details will be added under each location.