Multi Day, Multi Location

[Reji]

Have been asked this question by my client multiple times, for which I don’t have a clear answer. Question being:
How does one enter an event, with multiple locations and dates? For example: a theater play may have multiple shows per day, or the same play across different locations at different dates.

Appreciate any help you could provide.

[Rob]

Hey Reji. Let me check a couple things on this for you; should be able to get you a response over the next day. It may well require some reworking on our end to accomplish this.

[Reji]

Hi Rob. Hope you’ve got some approach around this.

[Rob]

If it’s not in the code base, it will be included in a future release. As noted above I need to get a developer to take a look but should have a response shortly.

[Rob]

Hi Reji. I checked this over with the developer today and it looks like I’d misunderstood. Any change to a single event will break it out of the series – it can’t be any other way with the architecture we went with for recurring events.

All recurring events are really just one WordPress post that have multiple start dates so if you change any one thing then the whole thing has to change, or you have to break out that change into it’s own event.

[Reji]

Hi Rob. Thanks for checking. If a play name cannot be changed, how do we address that across multiple locations and times? Typically a custom recurring event would also need to be at different dates/times and at different locations. If I go with the proposed solution to break out a series, then I’ll have multiple events entered (duplicate copy, etc), with permalinks to each of those events supplemented by additional numbers example {event-name}-2, {event-name}-3. I could tag them on an event category, however I’m limited to providing a good main description of the event series and have duplicate event content all over the place.

[Rob]

Hey Reji. It raises a good question; we’re building out a list now of features users are requesting to extend the recurrence functionality and I’ve added this to the list. Basically we built this the same way a tool like iCal operates; where a modified recurrence can be in appearance still part of the series but has been broken out as far as the system is concerned. It’s geared more towards having multiple instances of 1 event than having multiple instances of multiple events within the series. (If that makes sense…).

Sorry I couldn’t offer up more here. If you have any other questions on this or remarks you’d like me to pass along, let me know.

[Reji]

Hi Rob.

Yes building out a feature like this is very important. Looks like there are multiple requests from some of your other customers for a feature like this (multiple venues/organizers against an event). I’m not sure how you prioritize what features would go in the next release, is there a way for us – the community – to know, so that we can progress our work accordingly?

[Rob]

Thanks Reji. The best place to keep driving home the features you want to see are on our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/moderntribeinc), or in the sticky thread for proposed features that I’ve included right here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/events-calendar-pro-feature-requests/.

This one does seem pretty big, so it’s a higher priority at this point than a lot of the smaller issues – but at the same time given the scope of it such functionality probably won’t come to a head until 2.1 (versus 2.0.2 or 2.0.3). We’ll certainly post more on that once we’ve got it solidified but if you remain vocal about it, that’ll definitely keep this high on our radar.

Hope that helps and thanks for your feedback so far.

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