Calendar widget on event registration landing page

[McNally2024]

Hi there. I am looking to see if anyone has implemented a calendar widget on a Marketo event registration landing page. I have multiple events within the same Marketo program, and they spread across multiple months. Instead of a drop-down select field, I'd like to include a calendar where people pick a date and a list of available events for that date show up with links to register. Not sure if that can even work in Marketo. Something like this: https://admission.loyola.edu/portal/campus-tours I assume a third party vendor/integration is needed, but not sure if there is one to support it. Thank you in advance.

[beth-corby]

@McNally2024 This is not something that Marketo can handle natively. To achieve a calendar picker that displays events by date (like your example), you'd need custom web development. You could use a third-party event management tool like AddEvent or CVent and connect it to Marketo. 

So while it's definitely possible, it would require additional dev or vendor integration. 

Hope that helps! 

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

There are literally infinite datepickers out there that can integrate with Marketo forms and support the JS methods to display corresponding events. Cally and vanilla are two we’ve used.

You don’t need a back end integration: just store the backing event calendar in a JSON file in Design Studio and load it in real time, surely it’s small enough! You do need, as @beth-corby mentions, a front end JS developer.