Pending events

[karen]

Just a suggestion. It would be really nice if you could separate PENDING events and not populate them as recurring events until the admin looks it over and approves it. I had someone who put the start date and the end date and then said it was recurring each one of those days. This creates HAVOC if missed. Is it possible to not populate the recurrences until they are PUBLISHED state? Thanks!

[Nico]

Hi Karen,

Thanks for reaching out on this!

I don’t think there a way of doing what you are asking here. You are welcome to suggest this feature at The Events Calendar user voice page. Just to be sure you are talking about the back-end here?

This creates HAVOC if missed.

You mean these events make viewing events in the admin a mess?

Please let me know about this,
Best,
Nico

[karen]

Thanks Nico, Yes I am talking about the backend and I will suggest it.
What I mean is: if someone setup an event for Sept 11 – October 12 and then made it recurring, it will make every day of this event recurring, which will then make more recurring events when the Cron runs. I figure that might be how I ended up with 16,000 of 1 event. It just grew slowly, so I didn’t notice until the whole thing came to a halt.

[Nico]

Hi Karen,

Thanks for following up on this! Now I understand why you where calling that HAVOC!!!

That surely sounds like a bug for sure, and I would like to log it so it gets fixed! Can you try to recreate this in a test site and describe the process so I can reproduce it as well? This test site should be a clean WordPress install with default theme and only our plugins installed.

Please let me know if you can manage to do that,
Best,
Nico

[karen]

Nico,
I can try to do that at some point but it is down on my priority list at the moment. Is there a reward for being able to replicate it under your guidelines? 😉 Incentive is always nice.
Basically, Here is how I would try to replicate it. Someone logged in and created a Community event and scheduled it for September 9-October 19. then they checked the recurring box, repeat every day and had it end on October 19. It went to PENDING. In looking at it there was an event for Sept 9 -Oct 19, Sept 10 – Oct. 19, September 11 – Oct 19 etc. Each of those were recurring as well.
thanks,
karen

[Nico]

Hi Karen,

Thanks for taking the time to describe the steps to reproduce, I’ll try it myself tomorrow and let you know about my findings.

I’m aware it takes time to set up a site and test this, but sometimes this ‘issues’ are related to other plugins or configuration in the site they are happening. But there’s always a reward 😉 For now I’ll test this myself but if need you to do so for us, I’ll think of something!

Thanks,
Nico

[karen]

Nico, You asked me for a clean wordpress install with no other plugins but yours. That would not point to “Other Plugins” or configuration issues. If you want me to try it with a test environment, and plugins deactivated, and then activated one by one, that would take less time than a total reinstall of my test site.
thanks
karen

[Nico]

Hey Karen,

Yeap that will be fine as well. What you mention seems fine, just make sure the sites runs the latest version of our plugins -3.12- and latest wordpress version as well -4.3.

Please let me know how the test goes,
Best,
Nico

[karen]

where do you want these screenshots uploaded to? I have them here http://ge.tt/244XmiN2?c
Here is what I did.
I created an event and put it in PENDING.
it runs from Sept 10 – Nov 10 and recurs every day until November 10. I have set recurring to 1 month forward.
You can clearly see that something is wrong. sept 10 runs until Nov. 10 then sept 11 runs until Nov 11, etc.
Now, it only created events to October 9, but I will wait to see when the cron runs if the recurring events are duplicated again.
thanks

[karen]

Oh and every plugin is disabled except for event calendar ones and restricted access, although I can turn it off for a short time if you think it matters.

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[Nico]

Hi Karen,

Thanks for holding on this!

I finally give this some testing time, but I’m not 100% sure about how you are setting the event up.

I mean if you need the event to run everyday from Sept 10 to Nov 10, you should set up the event to run from Sept 10 to Sept 10 and create a recurrence rule for it to run ‘Every Day’ and set Nov 10 as the end date of the recurrence. If instead of doing so you set the event to run from Sept 10 to Nov 10 and set a recurrence rule for it to run ‘Every Day’ till Nov 10, it will try to create one new event (with two month duration) per day till the end date. Do you see the difference? Do you think this is what was happening?

Please let me know about this,
Best,
Nico

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