Accessing past events via different views and the menu bar

[Jamie Oastler]

https://theeventscalendar.com/faqs/calendar-view-urls/ outlines what the URLs are for list, month, photo, etc. All are accessible via the menu bar when starting from /events/. However I am having issues getting all to display or work with menu for past events. Examples of actions attempted, behaviour expected and actual result all relating to past events:

Action 1 – Go to /events/past
Expected 1 – Taken to photo view of past events (Photo is default view in settings)
Actual 1 – Taken to past events in list view as /events/past/

Action 2 – From /events/past in list view click on photo view from menu bar
Expected 2 – Taken to photo view of past events
Actual 2 – Taken to upcoming events in photo view and /events/photo/

Action 3 – Go via URL to /events/past/photo/ URL
Expected 3 – Taken to photo view of past events
Actual 3 – Taken to list view of past events

[Kelly]

Hi, Jamie. Great question! 🙂

The syntax for looking at past events in a certain view is a little less pretty than that. It should be something like:

http://yoursite.com/events/photo/?action=tribe_photo&tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past

Please give that a go, and let me know if that does the trick! 🙂

[Jamie Oastler]

That does work if I directly link to that URL / format. But once there, if I use the View As drop-down on menu bar to switch between views, it does not maintain the &tribe_event_display=past parameter.

Re-phrasing that as a question:
If I start out at http://yoursite.com/events/photo/?action=tribe_photo&tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past how can I ensure that use of the view as menu bar options keeps the user viewing past events?

[Kelly]

Hi, Jamie. I definitely see what you’re talking about.

Unfortunately, we don’t have our menu bar set up to continuously stay in the “Past Events” view. If you use a specific month, it will continue to respect that, but that would definitely require a significant amount of customization to take advantage of.

If this is something that you think should be built-in, we’d be very grateful if you’d make a suggestion in our User Voice Forum. We prioritize features based on the response they receive from our user community there.

Thanks! 🙂

 

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