Custom event categories and colors
How categories appear on the calendar, how to add or remove them, and what happens to old events.
Categories are the colored labels that show up next to each event on the calendar. They're how families tell at a glance whether something is a meeting, a campout, or a council event.
Setup
In Admin > Settings > Event Categories:
- Click Add Category to add a row. Each row has a color (pick from 9 swatches) and a name (up to 50 characters).
- Click the × to delete a row.
- Reset to Defaults restores the default set for your program (Cub Scouts: Pack Meeting, Den Meeting, Hike. Scouts BSA: Meeting, Campout, Other).
- Click Save Categories when done — none of the changes apply until you save.
You can have up to 12 categories total. The order on this page is the order they appear in the event-form dropdown.
Color rules
- Available colors: blue, green, orange, purple, red, teal, yellow, pink, indigo.
- Two categories can share a color (the name distinguishes them on screen).
- For Cub Scout dens, the den's rank color overrides the category color in the calendar legend — so a "Den Meeting" event for the Wolf den shows up red regardless of its category color. See View modes and filters.
Deleting a category
If you delete a category, past events that used it stay where they are — they just lose their color label. The event still works; only the category badge goes away. To re-color old events, edit each one and assign a different category.
There's no undo for delete, so if you're cleaning up, save a screenshot of the list first.