Multi-day events time display

[Jacques Perreault]

Hello,

First of all, Thank you for the amazing work on custom recurring events, really awesome!

Now, I have a recurring 2-day event that is: Jan. 21 @ 9am – 11am and Jan.22 @ 9am – 11am

http://www.employmenthelp.org/portfolio-item/microsoft-word/

The display shows: January 21, 2016 @ 9:00 am – January 22, 2016 @ 11:00 am

So rather than being 2 hours on 2 days, it looks like a 26 hour event (…nobody wants to spend that much time with MS Word haha!)

Just hoping for a solution to this (or creative work-around?)

Thanks again 🙂

[George]

Hey Jake,

This appears to be the specific event that has the date and time configuration you mention here → http://www.employmenthelp.org/workshop/resume-is-the-word-grimsby/2016-01-21/

Can you view the “edit” page for this event in your site’s wp-admin, and share a screenshot of Event information metabox on the event? This is the box in the screen where you set the start date and time, the end date and time, the recurrence info, et cetera…

You can do this by uploading the screenshot to Imgur.com, Flickr.com, CloudUp.com, or any similar image-hosting site; then just share the links to those images here and I’ll take a look.

Thank you!
George

[Jacques Perreault]

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[George]

Hey Jake,

Thanks for sharing this!

I see exactly what you mean now, and should clarify something – you describe your problem as this:

So rather than being 2 hours on 2 days, it looks like a 26 hour even

So you’re basically trying to combine two separate events into one. Now, in your terms the singular “event” might be a thing that just has two parts: 9am – 11am on Jan 21, and again 9am – 11am on Jan 22.

However, at this time The Events Calendar is very literal about what an “event” is, and so to have this work properly you’d need to make one event for Jan 21 at 9am-11am, then another event for Jan 22 at 9am-11am. Then on EACH of these events, set them as recurring events that will repeat every third Thursday, as you’ve so configured.

I’m sorry if this is frustratingly roundabout. But The Events Calendar can only handle events as something with a start time and end time, not a selection of multiple start times and end times with gaps between where the event is not happening.

Let me know if this helps with things!

And thank you for your patience with the delayed response over the holidays. Happy New Year 🙂

— George

[Michael]

I have the same problem. My “events” are multi-day workshops. A single event might consist of “6PM to 9PM” on Friday, then “9AM to 4PM” on Saturday, and finally “9:00AM to 3:00PM” on Sunday. This is a single workshop with a single description, etc. I guess I could enter custom fields in the admin event-editor, one custom field for each day: “day-one-hours” would have value “6PM to 9PM”, etc.

Then I’d have to edit “single-event.php” to interpolate an array of the per-day hours. This seems like a common enough use case that it should be officially supported…

[George]

Hey @Michael,

Thanks for reaching out. There’s unfortunately not much news on our event behavior, and what I wrote to @Jakejules above about the limitations of our events is still true 🙁

We are hoping to roll out better features in this area over time, though I don’t have an ETA for when such features would arrive.

Sorry to disappoint!

— George

[Jacques Perreault]

Hey guys,

What I ended up doing was marking the multi-day event as “full day” and then just clearly explaining the start/end times in the description. Super simple workaround, and I haven’t had any confused users yet (that I know of…).

Hope this helps. Cheers!

[George]

Thanks for sharing this, @Jakejules – that’s a great solution for the time being.

I’ll close up this thread for now and wish you both the best of luck with your projects.

Thanks!
George

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