Calendar - use signup page as event page on churchcenter flag

[ray-forlin]

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Which product is this question related to?
Calendar

Describe the question
There is a flag on the Event settings called "use signup page as event page on churchcenter flag". Is there an API endpoint to load this?

What have you tried that worked?
Tried event and event_instance endpoints

What have you tried that didn't work?
Nothing seemed to return that flag

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Potentially Related Issues

I found some existing issues that may be related to this one. Please check if any of them address your question before waiting for a response:

🟣 #1458 — Add closed attribute to signups in Registrations API (Closed)

Summary: This issue requested boolean attributes to determine if a Registrations signup is closed. While it relates to a different product (Registrations vs Calendar), it demonstrates a similar pattern of wanting to expose a flag/boolean that exists in the UI but wasn't available via the API endpoint.

Key discussion points:

• The user needed to determine if a signup was closed to conditionally display links on their website
• They noted that the close_at attribute only worked for automatic closures, not manual closures
• They discovered the internal Church Center API had a 'closed' attribute they couldn't access via the public API
• An alternative solution suggested was setting close_at to current datetime instead of null when manually closing

Resolution: Planning Center added the requested attributes: 'open' and 'closed' booleans were made available on the Registrations signup endpoint, allowing developers to check registration status programmatically.

🟣 #1394 — /calendar/v2/eventinstances (Closed)

Summary: This was initially about null data being returned from event_instances endpoint, but evolved into a discussion about optimizing API calls and accessing nested relationship data. While not directly about the signup page flag, it extensively covers the Calendar API's event_instances endpoint structure and how to use fields/include parameters.

Key discussion points:

• How to use the fields parameter with type specification: fields[EventInstance]=attribute1,attribute2
• When using fields parameter, you only get back specifically requested fields
• How to access included records through the top-level 'included' section of JSON-API responses
• ResourceBooking and Event data can be included in event_instances calls using the include parameter
• Importance of specifying the latest API version header (X-PCO-API-Version)

Resolution: The issue was resolved through education about JSON-API structure. The user learned that related records appear in the top-level 'included' array rather than nested within each data object, and how to properly use the fields parameter to reduce API calls while maintaining access to needed relationship data.

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[kevinthompson]

Hi @ray-forlin! We do not currently expose this attribute through the API and we actually have plans to change that behavior in the future, so we likely will not be adding the attribute to the API either. What was the use case for that information? Is there something we might be able to help solve another way?

[ray-forlin]

Hi @kevinthompson Thank you for your reply. I run the PCO embedding site at pcoembed.com and one of the embeds I provide are event embeds. I was trying to emulate the correct PCO behaviour when you click on an event based on this flag but it sounds like that is not possible. I have a reasonable workaround so that's fine. Thanks anyway.