Publishing recurring events causes them to be duplicated

[fusionstudio]

We are working on a development server adding in extra functionality for a client (the site itself was originally made by a separate developer). We have it set up now so that users can anonymously create an event on the front end of the site using the Community Events plugin. These events are set to be “Pending”, so the administrator can go in and publish them after checking them. Unfortunately, it seems that any events set to be recurring are duplicated whenever the status is changed. So if they publish the event, there are two sets of recurring events, both set to published oddly enough.

This works even if you create the event in the back end of the site by creating it set as Pending, and clicking “Save as Pending”, then once the page loads clicking “Publish”. With this issue, we can’t hand off the calendar functionality to the client as it doesn’t work if the user creates a recurring event. It seems like it’s re-creating the recurrence chain even if you save the original event item itself.

[Barry]

Hi fusionstudio: as this relates to Community Events I’m going to move your thread over to that forum so you can receive help from our expert there 🙂

[Julie Kuehl]

Hi fusionstudio,

Thanks for reporting this issue. I’m seeing a bit of that behavior here as well. I’m going to do some more testing of it, but one thing I noticed is that it doesn’t seem to duplicate if you publish the first event in the series and then select the “Update All Events” option. You can unpublish particular events from there if you need to.

Does that behave the same way for you?

I’m likely to log this as a bug, so if you have any additional details or wonkiness that you notice, I’d really appreciate hearing about them.

— Julie

[fusionstudio]

Here is what we are seeing…
Any time you are editing an event which is part of a recurring series, it asks you if you wish to save the changes for just the one instance or for the entire series from that point forward. This means that editing an event other than the first one in the series essentially “breaks the chain” and makes it into two series (or just makes that one instance a non-recurring event if you save only one).

Also, changing the dates or recurrence of the event creates a new chain of events from that point forward and doesn’t delete the remaining recurrences of that original event timing.

The issue only arises when changing the dates for recurring events, or if you accidentally save an event that is partway through a series.

[Julie Kuehl]

Hey again fusionstudio,

Yeah, this is a genuine bug. We’ll start digging in to get it resolved and keep you posted as we progress.

Sorry this isn’t working the way it should. Hang tight and we’ll do our best to get it sorted quickly!

— Julie

[fusionstudio]

Hello,

Is there any status updates or ETA on when this bug will be fixed?

[Kelly]

Hi, fusionstudio. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a chance to look at your issue for our maintenance release this time around.

While it’s possible we may have inadvertently fixed it in addressing another issue and welcome your feedback to confirm or deny this once you’ve updated, we want to set your expectations.

Rest assured getting this resolved is still a priority for us. We look forward to addressing this as soon as we’ve got bandwidth/resources to allow it.

Thanks for being part of the TEC community!

[Leah]

Hello,

Thank you again for bringing this issue to our attention. We’re happy to say that we have added a fix for this into our upcoming version 3.11 release. Keep an eye on your Updates page for the new version. If you have any trouble with the update (or are still seeing this problem after you update) please start a new thread and we’d be happy to help out.

Thank you for your patience while we got this release ready to go!

Best,
Leah
and the rest of The Events Calendar team

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