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 In the services "Events" and "News", a user can choose between seven standardized time periods (next month, next 3 months, past 3 months, ..) to filter events and news. 
 Furthermore, the p-admin has the possibility to create self-defined time periods for the platform. 
 
 Please note that the standard periods will no longer be displayed, after you have created one or more self-defined period(s). 
 
  
 In order to create a new time period, proceed as follows: 
  
 |1| Choose "" from the main menu by clicking on it. 
 
 |2| A table with all services is displayed. Click on the “modify” button next to the service “events” or "news". 
 
 |3| Now, you see an empty list and a form which needs to be filled out: 
  
Period name:
 Enter a short name for the new time period (e.g. next week).  Only the first 26 characters will be displayed in the  drop-down menu.
 
  Length:
 Enter a number between 1 and 365 in the input field and choose a time interval (days, months, year) from the drop down menu.
 
  Towards:
 Specify whether the time interval defined previously (length) should point to the past (i.e. last 7 days) or to the future (i.e. next 7 days).
 
  Default period:
 Click in this  checkbox if you want "events" or "news" during this period to be displayed first whenever a user clicks on "Events" or "News".  
 
 
|4| Click on „create“ in order to save the new time period. 
  
  
 If you want to use the standardized periods of FCS again, click on "set default". 
   
 
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