Answers.Body: <p>Search for Contacts w/ specific criteria (if you like to narrow things down) -> then add the resulting Contacts to a Group; make sure in Manage Groups that the Groups is a mailing group; Then go to CiviMail and email this Group your Event details + link to registration page.</p>
  
  <p>If you have fewer than 50 Contacts you can also send Email from the Result of the Contact search screen; over 50 you'll need to use CiviMail;</p>
  
  <p>If you want to get really fancy -> embed a checksum token in your Email message to your Contacts -> that way when they get to the Event registration page existing information (already in your CiviCRM) - will be filled out for them;</p>
  
  <p>The details on how to use this would depend on your CMS -> but here's an example for Drupal (where IDNUMBER is the ID of your Event)</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.myorganization.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&amp;id=IDNUMBER&amp;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.myorganization.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&amp;id=IDNUMBER&amp;</a>{contact.checksum}&amp;cid={contact.contact_id}</p>
  
  <p>When using checksum tokens -> they only have limited lifetime (for security reasons) -> you may need to visit Administer -> System Settings -> Misc -> and change the Checkum Lifespan (7 days is default);</p>
  
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Body: <p>We have created an event with on-line registration.</p>
  
  <p>How do we send the 'event' to contacts within a group in CiviCRM?</p>
  
Tags: <civievent><civimail>
Title: Event Participant invitation
ThreadText: # Event Participant invitation
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-14)
  
  We have created an event with on-line registration.
  
  How do we send the 'event' to contacts within a group in CiviCRM?
  
  **Tags:** civievent, civimail
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-09-14. Score: 4
  
  Search for Contacts w/ specific criteria (if you like to narrow things down) -> then add the resulting Contacts to a Group; make sure in Manage Groups that the Groups is a mailing group; Then go to CiviMail and email this Group your Event details + link to registration page.
  
  If you have fewer than 50 Contacts you can also send Email from the Result of the Contact search screen; over 50 you'll need to use CiviMail;
  
  If you want to get really fancy -> embed a checksum token in your Email message to your Contacts -> that way when they get to the Event registration page existing information (already in your CiviCRM) - will be filled out for them;
  
  The details on how to use this would depend on your CMS -> but here's an example for Drupal (where IDNUMBER is the ID of your Event)
  
  <http://www.myorganization.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=IDNUMBER&>{contact.checksum}&cid={contact.contact\_id}
  
  When using checksum tokens -> they only have limited lifetime (for security reasons) -> you may need to visit Administer -> System Settings -> Misc -> and change the Checkum Lifespan (7 days is default);
  
  
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