Custom Field for Recurring Event

[Michael]

In the events portion of our site, we use a custom field for “Tickets Link” — this is a URL to a separate site through which we sell the actual tickets to our events. This is working great on all of our events except for recurring events. For example, we might have the same show run on four days across two weekends (so, Friday & Saturday of Weekend 1 + Friday & Saturday of Weekend 2).

We can create the event with multiple dates without a problem; but we only get ONE instance of the ‘tickets link’ custom field per event listing. The question is: is there a way to have a unique entry for the custom field for each of the recurring instances of an event? So, a unique ‘tickets link’ URL for each day (Friday & Saturday of Weekend 1 + Friday & Saturday of Weekend 2) of the series?

Yes, I do realize that if we separate the series of recurring events into stand-alone events, then we can have a unique tickets link URL for each – but I’d like to find a way to keep the series as a single, recurring event (for easier management/editing), but have a unique URL in the ‘tickets link’ field for each.

[Cliff]

Hi, Michael.

It sounds like you have a solid grasp on the current workings of recurring events (including breaking from series)… so the answer is “no”. Sorry, this isn’t currently supported. (Although it may be helpful for you to know that the existing recurring events infrastructure uses WordPress’ Parent-Child relationship for the Series/Parent and each occurrence/Child.)

However, the good news is that we are refactoring all the code around recurring events so that our own tickets solution (Event Tickets / Event Tickets Plus) can work for each instance within a series of events. I don’t know if PRO’s Additional Fields or WordPress’ Custom Fields will benefit from this new infrastructure, but I’d guess so.

Anyway, I’d suggest adding your vote to this existing feature request: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/3685663-recurring-event-support-for-tickets

And as far as expected release date, I really can’t say but I’d guess sometime 2017.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Support Droid]

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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