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Hi @JAM3763 - unfortunately there isn't an easy way to do this – even if you hide the button from the Event Page, each Event Title and Event Image will still link to each individual event listing. You could set up a 301 redirect for every single individual event URL that would redirect users from the event to the external URL, but that feels hacky and likely difficult to maintain over time.

Curious to see if others have better suggestions. Noting it's a Squarespace 7.0 site, since that means the Event Page options are a little different.

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@edharris

Thanks for the quick response!

Well, if hiding the button is doable, I would still go for it, despite the title/image still linking to the event page. I can add a third-party link to the excerpt and hope that most folks will click that? Ideally I would add a button to the excerpt but from what I've read, that's going to be too difficult for my client to have to deal with each time they want to add an event.

 

 

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22 hours ago, JAM3763 said:

My client wants the 'View Event' button to point to a custom URL, since all events are third-party (various third parties) hosted.

If you hide the built-in buttons, you (or your client) could then manually add a 'View Event' link to the end of the excerpt of each event.

You can do this by simply typing "View Event →" (with or without the arrow!) and then use the text formatting toolbar to add the external link. Here's a short video showing how to do this:

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By adding some styling to Design > Custom CSS you can make these easy-to-add links look like the buttons they are replacing:

.sqs-events-collection-list .eventlist .eventlist-event .eventlist-excerpt a {
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #c08d54;
  border-color: #c08d54;
  padding: 1em 2.5em;
}

Here's a screenshot showing the link (which is now styled to look like a button):

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7 hours ago, em_ said:

Anyone knows if this was ever fixed

The button is still missing. 

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Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. 
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