form and doubling of events

[ckas]

When people enter events that are reoccuring the events enter the calendar multiple times on the same day. Can we remove reoccring from the form and other elements from the form?

[Nico]

H there @ckas,

Thanks for reaching out to us! Unfortunately I’m not getting what the issue is here…

Can you elaborate a bit or send screenshots and/or the site URL where I can see this?

Please let me know about it,
Best,
Nico

[ckas]

This reply is private.

[Nico]

Hi @ckas,

Thanks for following up with the details on this!

I guess the issue comes up because of the event settings. Try changing the event end date to 09/04/2016, and then save please save the event.

The star and end dates of the ‘original event’ should be set as if wasn’t recurrent. Then the recurrence settings will take care of the rest.

Please let me know about it,
Best,
Nico

[ckas]

hi nico, that worked. Thank you. How do i communicate this to people filling in the form or do i need to just fix the problems each time. I noticed the form cant be edited etc

[Nico]

Hey ckas,

Great to hear we could nail it!

How do i communicate this to people filling in the form or do i need to just fix the problems each time. I noticed the form cant be edited etc

You mean this events are submitted via Community Events form? Maybe putting up a note in the form for this would work? In that case you can add a warning at the event of the ‘Event time & date‘ section by adding this snippet to your functions.php file:


function display_custom_message ( ) {
?>
<p>Please bear in mind the following before posting...</p>
<?php
}
add_action ( 'tribe_events_community_after_the_datepickers', 'display_custom_message' );


You can use the action tribe_events_community_after_the_datepickers if you want the notice to display before the ‘Event time & date‘ section.

Please let me know if this answers your question,
Best,
Nico

[ckas]

thanks

[Nico]

You are welcome @ckas 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Best,
Nico

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