Help with different times!

[Gwen]

I run a culture blog and many different types of events submit an event. There doesn’t seem to be a way to handle plays which have both matinees and evening performances, and run for weeks but not on Mondays. Is there a plug-in to fix this? It doesn’t matter with short runs of concerts, but for Broadway plays it’s really an issue.

[Barry]

Hi Gwen,

Does this relate to your previous question on the Community Events forum?

Basically, if you want to assign a recurring event pattern to an event then each ‘instance’ must take place on a different date, it is not currently possible to have a pattern where an event repeats twice daily for example.

[Gwen]

yes, my question was moved here.
So there’s no way to indicate a matinee? What about when something skips a day– i.e., every day but Monday? It sounds as though Events isn’t really set up for theatre, which typically has eight shows a week, matinees on Saturday and Wednesday.

[Barry]

You can of course have more than one event on a single day – the limitation only exists in terms of recurring event support.

So, if you want to set up an event and have it recur daily Monday-Saturday (but with two performances, Wednesday and Saturday) then I’m afraid you can’t do that with the current recurring event system. You could of course add matinée performances with standalone events and simply link to them from other events.

If this is common in the theatrical and perhaps other sectors it could certainly be worth checking out our UserVoice page. You can then show your support for anyone else who has already proposed this, or even create your own request.

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