Creating filters for past events

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  • #1323869
    Anthony
    Participant

    Good afternoon – I just installed the Filter Bar Add on, which has been working perfectly for me [along with the Events Cal]. I have an odd issue I was hoping to get some guidance on. After our organization hosts a webinar event, we typically release summary materials, including a video capture of the webinar. Based on user feedback, it seems that people find it easiest to go back to the calendar to look for event archives…specifically webinars that have recordings.

    To address this, I created a custom link that lives at the top of the Events Calendar called “Webinar Recordings”. If a user clicks that link, all of the previous events that have been added to the “Webinar Recording” category are displayed…but it’s a long list and there’s no way to narrow the results.

    I’m curious if there’s a way to add some functionality to the Filter Bar to allow a user to filter for past events by type [so, the category “past webinar”] and then to filter that down by tag [for example, a specific topic].

    It seems the filter bar is limited to only displaying upcoming events. I guess I’m looking for some option I can add that points the search/filter to past events…like a toggle to “include past events in search” or similar.

    Thanks for any help or guidance!
    –Anthony

    #1324615
    Courtney
    Member

    Hi Anthony

    We are preparing an update for Filter Bar that will be revealed within a matter of weeks that should allow you to sort through your webinars a bit better. It will allow for child and grandchild categories and tags. So within your webinars, you could have Category A as a child, Category B, etc. If you want to start preparing for that update by creating child and grandchild categories, you’ll be able to take advantage of that refined sorting sooner.

    Thanks
    Courtney 🙂

    #1324617
    Courtney
    Member

    This reply is private.

    #1324633
    Anthony
    Participant

    Awesome – thanks for the follow up – I’ll look forward to test driving the
    new functionality.

    –Anthony

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    #1325465
    Courtney
    Member

    Hi Anthony

    Good news – you can give our Release Candidate for Filter Bar a try now. Please go to https://theeventscalendar.com/my-account/downloads/ and scroll to the bottom of the downloads list.

    Thanks
    Courtney 🙂

    #1325971
    Anthony
    Participant

    Hey Courtney – thanks again for the follow up. I just checked out the latest RC and, while a cool update, it doesn’t do exactly what I’m looking for.

    What I need to do is add a single filter that will pull up Past Events. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to have a custom filter option, similar to the Featured Events filter, but instead of “show featured events only”, I want “show past events only”.

    You can see what I have at http://www.asdwa.org/events

    I need a custom filter that pulls up this display:
    https://www.asdwa.org/events/category/webinars/webinar-recordings/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past

    Any guidance would be appreciated – thank you!
    –Anthony

    #1326297
    Courtney
    Member

    Hi Anthony

    I do see now what you are looking to achieve. Unfortunately, we don’t have a customization on file for that at this time. I have forwarded this idea on to the team that creates our Extensions library. Your work around link in the text at the top does seem like a very useful idea.

    For now, can you leave this idea at http://tribe.uservoice.com.

    Thanks
    Courtney 🙂

    #1326302
    Anthony
    Participant

    Thanks Courtney – I’ll leave a comment in UserVoice. If I come up with a more refined solution, I’ll post it for anyone else looking for a similar function.

    #1326313
    Courtney
    Member

    Sounds Great Anthony.

    #1336850
    Support Droid
    Keymaster

    Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

    Thanks so much!
    The Events Calendar Support Team

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