Events List: Previous Events and Next Events Behavior on Past Events

[Bob]

When viewing Events As A List: For upcoming events, the Previous and Next Events buttons work properly. However, for past events, they are exhibiting the following incorrect (I believe) behavior:

I’ll start with the “Previous Events” button. While viewing upcoming events, pressing it brings me (correctly) back to the next earliest events. However, as soon as I pass the earliest upcoming event, the next event brought up is the oldest Event on the site. From that point on, the “Previous Events” button moves FORWARD in time through the past events until it reaches the most recent past event on the site.

Conversely, if I press the “Next Events” button, it will “undo” the last press of the “Previous Events” button and take me back to earlier events.

Interestingly, the URL that appears corresponds to the Events that SHOULD be getting displayed, not the ones that are getting displayed. In fact, if at any point I simply refresh the browser, the incorrect Events are replaced with the correct ones–until I next press the Previous or Next Events buttons. So it appears to me that the problem is likely in the AJAX logic (tribe-events-ajax-calendar.js ?).

Again, this behavior only occurs with past events. With upcoming events, the buttons work properly.

Thanks.

[Julie Kuehl]

Hi bobs,

I think you’ve run into a bug we’ve identified and are working on. Hang tight and we’ll let you know when we have a fix for this.

– Julie

[Bob]

Hi Julie,

Glad to hear you’ve identified it.

Do you have a guestimate as to how long before the fix? I need to decide whether to code something for my customer to use in the interim.

Thanks.

Bob

[Julie Kuehl]

I can’t give you an exact date, but it’s a high priority and I expect it will be included in one of our upcoming maintenance releases.

— Julie

[Hunter]

Bob, if you figure it out before the next release date, please send me an email! Likewise if I get it solved. [email protected]

[Bob]

joinfof and anyone else for whom it’s useful: Here’s what I’ve done to work around the bug until Modern Tribe is able to fix it:

1) In Admin/Events/Settings, I’ve set “Number of events to show per page” to 20. This lessens the need for paging to see additional Events.

2) I’ve removed the buggy “Previous Events” and “Next Events” links by adding a dummy (empty) file to my theme. The relative path and filename are: “[theme name]/tribe-events/list/nav.php”. (You need to follow this exactly for it to work.)

Users wanting to see upcoming Events, as is the case 80% of the time, won’t even notice anything is missing, since they will simply scroll down to their Event of interest within the up-to-20 Events displayed by default. Users who want to look at historical Events will need to use the “Events From” selector at the top of the screen rather than click a “Previous Events” arrow–a minor inconvenience.

[Julie Kuehl]

Creative! Thanks for sharing that. We do hope to get this resolved soon.

— Julie

[Leah]

Hi folks,

I’m happy to report that we have fixed this in our upcoming version 3.4. Keep an eye on your Plugins page for an update message! Thanks for your patience while we worked on this.

Best,
Leah

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