Multiple days events

[Jiri Cervenka]

Hi,
we are using the standard version of your Event Calendar extensively. Unfortunately we are lacking one really crucial feature for us.

We are organizing a lot of events all over the world and almost all the events are taking place over multiple days. What we need is the ability to put in start date, start time, end date and end time for every day of event separately.
So that we can for example display Event like this:

Event Miami June 2016
June 10 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
June 11 from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM
June 12 from 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM

At this moment we have to create every day of event separately and that is really a lot of work and it is cluttering our calendar.
Is there any chance that such feature appears in upcoming version of The Event Calendar?
Thanks

Regards,
Jiri

[Caroline]

Hi there! Thanks for getting in touch!

It sounds like the types of events you’re hosting may be more easily managed by our recurring event functionality in Events Calendar PRO! You can specify a particular interval for a recurring event (i.e. daily, weekly, etc.), or you can designate a handful of specific dates–this will let you create a batch of linked events quickly while allowing you to edit them individually or as a group afterwards. You can read more about recurring events and how they work here.

Does that help to answer your question? Let me know! 🙂

[Jiri Cervenka]

Hi,
I just tried to create test event on you demo site and I am not completely satisfied with the result.
I find it bit too complicated and I actually do not want several separate events but one event that spans over multiple days each day with its own start and end time.
Is it possible to import reccuring events via csv?
Is it possible to display the events in following way using merge tag?
Event Miami June 2016
June 10 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
June 11 from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM
June 12 from 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM

Thanks.

Kind Regards,
Jiri

[Caroline]

Thanks for clarifying a bit as to what you’re trying to do here! By default, we don’t support recurring events being grouped under a single unifying title. We’ve had some customers achieve this functionality by creating a single event that spans multiple days and adding the daily hours to the event description. If you’d like to display the detailed hourly breakdown for each day on the event list view, just as you’ve indicated above, you could even add a custom field on the backend and display it using a template customization! You can read more about template customizations and how they work on our Themer’s Guide.

At the moment, recurring events are not supported by our CSV import tool. You might consider looking into iCal Importer, however, depending on your import requirements–it adds a great deal of functionality on top of our more basic solutions.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you should have any other questions!

[Caroline]

Hi again! It looks like you’ve marked a correct answer for this thread, which I’m taking to mean that you’re all set now! 🙂 I’m going to ahead and close this thread to keep things moving along, but please don’t hesitate to open a new thread if you should have any other questions or concerns!

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