Events Exclusions

[martinh]

Hello,

I have just purchased Events Calendar Pro and I am having some trouble editing the recurring events and exclusions how I would like. The website I am working on is for a museum. We want to be able to list our exhibits as events, but the museum is not open every day of the week. So we want to be able to have date exclusions so that the exhibit does not show up every day of the month on the calendar view. I have tried the option where under “Event Series” I click “Add Multiple Events” and I then type in the time frames for the correct days of the week that the museum is open. However, when I do this, it actually adds events to the list view. So under the month of October, it has the exhibit name listed around 20 times. This is not what I had in mind. Is there not a way to edit a single event and the dates that it is occurring without adding more events under the same name?

For example: If we have an exhibit titled “Gemstones and Dinosaur Bones” that goes from September 17-December 20, and the museum is only open on Tuesdays-Saturdays, is there not a way to edit the event where the exhibit only shows up on Tuesdays-Saturdays instead of listing the title “Gemstones and Dinosaur Bones” around 50 times?

Thanks

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Emily and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.

We are sorry to hear that the recurring events are not working to your expectations.
I would love to help you with this topic.

In case you have not already done so, I would highly recommend reading the following: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events/

Is there not a way to edit a single event and the dates that it is occurring without adding more events under the same name?

This is a great question.

There are quite a few things that can be done with the way events are presented.
But, as you can imagine, there are certain limits to this.

Technically speaking, recurring events are indeed single events that repeat according to the website owner’s rules.

What you can work on is how this is displayed.
For instance, there are 2 built-in options under Events -> Settings -> General that allow you to control at a basic level some of the recurring event display behaviour.

Additionally, keep in mind you could simply deactivate the views that do not serve your purpose. I believe that perhaps the list view might not be suitable for your purpose.

is there not a way to edit the event where the exhibit only shows up on Tuesdays-Saturdays instead of listing the title “Gemstones and Dinosaur Bones” around 50 times

It sounds like you will be a big fan of an upcoming feature: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/5318027-month-view-have-multi-day-events-span-the-cons

In the meantime, unless you are willing to do some custom coding to the views ( You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works. ) or hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you – there is no built-in way to achieve this.

At best, you could have “big” events that span from Tuesday to Saturday and repeat these.

It would at least diminish the number of repeated events.

I wish I had a better answer for you, but for now it’s the best one I have.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[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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