Custom Scheduling

[Tali]

Maybe I’m just missing something, but is it possible to schedule an event for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Friday of each month? I could just set it for every Friday night then manually delete the event that fall on the 1st Friday, but I have two problems with that:
1) The schedule field, in the single event view, will still display “every week on Friday”
2) Deleting events one by one is a pain, and when I try to select multiple events and move them to the trash all at once is throws up an error.

[Barry]

Hi Tali.

Recurring events are being overhauled for The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO 3.0 – this involves improvements that will allow for sporadic patterns like you have described.

Currently I’m afraid you would need to workaround the calendar’s behaviour either by editing the template to remove the “every week on Friday” message, or by doing some custom programming to leave a marker in the database where events have been removed from the chain of recurring events, or by avoiding the use of recurring events and “linking” together events through some other (custom) mechanism.

All of the above ideas of course require custom work, but there is unfortunately little else I can suggest.

[Marty]

Hi Barry,

I, too, am very much in need of an alternative recurrence scheme.

My ideal solution would be the ability to add multiple “Event Time and Date” fieldsets to an Event. Like the current, single fieldset, each would include a full set of start/end/date/time, plus recurrance options.

Perhaps you can comment on how closely, or not, that matches what is being discussed internally?

I would be very interested in some sort of a 3.0 roadmap, which sketches out the general contours of what functionality is planned and what the schedule might possibly be. This would be incredibly helpful, as it would be information I could bring to my team.

Marty

[Barry]

I’m afraid I can’t comment right now, simply because nothing is final until we get closer to the beta testing stage – and even then we’ll need to look at how our guinea pigs fair with any new functionality before we can definitively say, “Yes – this will be included.”

[Marty]

Is there any information you can give me at all — a tentative schedule for when 3.0 will be entering and coming out of beta?

[Barry]

I really don’t want to sound elusive or unhelpful, but I just can’t give you anything firm to work on here.

A lot of work has been completed already, but there is still some way to go; likely it will be released in the first half of 2013. When exactly I can’t say. It could be very early on or it could push past that timeframe.

[Marty]

That does help, thanks Barry!

[Tali]

Hi Barry,
Thanks for the info. Can you tell me which file to edit and which lines to delete in order to remove the “every week on Friday” bit? Thanks – Tali

[Barry]

Hi Tali. If you open up your custom events/single.php template you should see an if block beginning:

if ( class_exists('TribeEventsRecurrenceMeta') ...

(Lines 52-57 inclusive in an unmodified copy of that template) you should remove that block or edit it to suit your requirements.

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