Custom Sorting and View of Admin Events List

[David]

I have a site that will have hundreds if not thousands of events, most of which are recurring. Currently, when I view the event list in the admin, the list is automatically sorted to show the event farthest in the future, which in this case is May 2016.

I am looking to have the order reversed, with the nearest start date at the top of the list, and that only show only events that have not yet passed. I know I can simply click the column header for the start date, but when you are dealing with 1000+ events, the last thing you want to do is wait for the admin to refresh.

Essentially this would be a custom view of the initial event list, but would make the process easier for the team managing the events.

I have seen various posts that somewhat deal with the first part of this issue, but nothing that fits what I need.

[Brook]

Howdy kwirxcreative,

I think you will find this snippet most helpful. It adds a link to the admin bar menu to view only upcoming events from the backend. It utilizes our APM filters, or the filter bar that you see at the top of the admin area, to limit the results. You should be able to easily modify that to just reverse the order instead of the query instead or otherwise narrow down your result.

Does that make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know. Cheers!

– Brook

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[Brook]

Hello Craig!

I am sorry no one responded here. We try and keep our topics to one person/issue per thread that way each user is receiving our full attention, and is thus responded to quicker and more accurately. Our forum software is designed around that philosophy. Unfortunately when the original poster marked this topic as resolved, your comment then never showed up in our questions queue. I am truly very sorry about that! Would you mind opening a new topic if you are still having an issue? Usually we will respond within 24hours, often times less than half of that.

– Brook

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