ADD TBD or season ('Fall', 'Winter', etc) to date picker

[Will]

Hey there,
We’re putting together a calendar that will probably get published before a few event dates are solidified, but the organizer wants to announce that the show will be coming in a season (e.g “Fall, 2013”), or “Date TBD”. How to filter the date field to allow for those types of options?

[Lee]

Without too much work you could set up Fall, Summer etc as Event categories then display everything from that category on a listing type page.
Im not sure how you would implement that with the Calendar view though, if there are no secific date attatched to it.

[Will]

Hey Lee,
Can’t use the categories, as those are already being used for other things. I think to avoid issues with messing up the calendar system, probably best case is to add a “TBD” checkbox using something like Advanced Custom Fields, then setting up an if statement that looks for that option and printing the relevant text on screen, else display start date / end date, etc.

[Lee]

In the same way, you could use the Custom fields to just set an event as Fall / Summer etc
Then on your listing page you could pull out every event that is set to Fall.

[Barry]

(Thanks Lee!) I think I’d take a similar approach; does that give you enough to go on here Will or do you require any further help/input?

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