A Couple of Recurring Event Questions

[Amy]

Two questions regarding recurring events:

1) I love the recurring events feature in Events Calendar Pro because I primarily want to list events that I produce as a series – e.g. every Monday for 4 weeks. I have figured out how to do that, and it looks great except the price is listed on each one, which makes it look as if it’s the price for that individual event rather than for the whole series. Is there a way to have the price just show up on the first one?

2) I’ve successfully listed recurring dates for several of my upcoming events, but something weird happened on one of them – I chose the recurring date as usual and it appeared to “take” but when I saved it, it says “One event on Invalid date” rather than the accurate date. The right date does show on the first instance of the series (screenshot attached). Any idea what’s going on here?

Thanks so much for your help.

Amy

[George]

Thanks for reaching out, Amy! Happy Friday 😀

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1) I love the recurring events feature in Events Calendar Pro because I primarily want to list events that I produce as a series – e.g. every Monday for 4 weeks. I have figured out how to do that, and it looks great except the price is listed on each one, which makes it look as if it’s the price for that individual event rather than for the whole series. Is there a way to have the price just show up on the first one?

Unfortunately there’s not an “out-of-the-box” way to do this—but you should be able to do it with a bit of custom CSS. If possible, can you share links to some of the event series where you only want the first event to show the price? I will take a look at your site and try to recommend some CSS that will achieve this outcome.

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2) I’ve successfully listed recurring dates for several of my upcoming events, but something weird happened on one of them – I chose the recurring date as usual and it appeared to “take” but when I saved it, it says “One event on Invalid date” rather than the accurate date. The right date does show on the first instance of the series (screenshot attached). Any idea what’s going on here?

This is a bit strange, particularly because your screenshot shows a different date format being used for the different text inputs there in the form. ?

To help me investigate this, can you your site’s complete, un-edited system information using the “Sharing information manually” steps outlined in this article: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/

It’s Friday today, so a substantive update on this may not arrive until Monday, which I am sorry about. 🙁 But I will actively be working on this and report back on Monday with (hopefully) some helpful replies.

Cheers!
George

[Amy]

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[George]

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[Amy]

Hi George.

No the weird date configuration only happened on this one – and I have several other events with the same situation – weekly recurring events – that went through without a hitch. It seems to have worked itself out though – the dates are all showing up fine on the calendar itself. If it ever comes up again I’ll search extra hard to identify what might have happened.

Amy

[Amy]

Even though my 2nd question is no longer a current issue, I’ll leave the thread open to see if you can help me with my first question – about having the price of an event only show up on the first instance when there are recurring sessions within the same course.

Thanks!

[George]

Hey Amy,

To work backwards here, making the price only show on the first event in a series is not possible without code customization, which we unfortunately will not be able to help with as elaborated upon here.

Sorry to bear this news!

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In regards to the “invalid date” issue, it’s great news to here that things seemed to resolve themselves. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to determine the cause of these problems, but if they come back, please do indeed open a new thread here to report those issues.

Since the main issues — “invalid date” — is resolved, I will go ahead and close up this thread. Please open a new thread any time if other issues or questions arise!

— George

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