Foreseen Difficulties with Managing Recurring Events

[fusionstudio]

Hello,

We have installed The Events Calendar Pro so that the client can have recurring events on their site. However, it seems there are a few difficulties with them. If you save an event that is partway through a recurring series, it only saves that change from that point forward. Also, if you change the Recurrence options for the event or it’s date (even if doing so from the first event in the chain), it creates all of the new recurrences but leaves the old versions of the events still in the system.

I can understand the logic behind it, but it will be harder for the client due to the possibility for errors. Is there any way to make it harder to accidentally change the wrong event in a series?

[Barry]

Hi fusionstudio,

You’re correct that this is all by design and indeed was originally modelled on what we perceived to be the prevailing industry standards, notably with reference to Google Calendar (I’m not saying it duplicates all of that product’s behaviours exactly, just that that is the sort of reference point we used during the design phase).

All I can say is we’re open to suggestions – our UserVoice page is the place to post any ideas for improvements – but right now any change to this process is, I’m afraid, something you’d need to figure out and develop for yourself.

[Support Droid]

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