Recurrence Description field in JSON feed

[Marianne Steiner]

How can I output the Recurrence Description field in each recurring event in the JSON feed?

I tried the same way like custom fields (see: topic/custom-field-output-for-json-feed/, but that didn’t show up.

    'Termine'=> get_post_meta( $recurrence[description], '_ecp_custom_16', true ),

The result in the JSON is:

"Termine": false

That’s somehat close, because it’s at least something.

This code I tried, showed nothing:

    'Termine'=> get_post_meta( $event_id, 'recurrence-description', true ),

"Termine" : ""

Or would it be possible to autocopy the text from the Recurrence Description field into a custom field?

[Andras]

Hi Marianne,

Thanks for your question.

The recurrence description is not saved like that as a metadata.

It is saved as a serialized data, which looks like something like this:

{
    "rules": [
        {
            "type": "Custom",
            "custom": {
                "interval": "1",
                "same-time": "yes",
                "type": "Daily"
            },
            "end-type": "After",
            "end-count": "3",
            "EventStartDate": "2018-04-13 08:00:00",
            "EventEndDate": "2018-04-13 17:00:00"
        }
    ],
    "exclusions": [],
    "description": null
}

And the description is generated based on that on the fly with javaScript (and probably some black magic).

I’m sorry I cannot be more helpful on this one. Let me know if you have any further questions on this.

Cheers,
Andras

[Marianne Steiner]

Thanks for the information.

I think this is true, but

Recurrence Description, Use this field if you want to override the auto-generated descriptions of event recurrence

So "description": null will transformed with some “black magic” or the like, but if a description is there, that would be used, I guess.

So there must be a way to hook into that data to add it to the JSON feed or copy it to a custom field, but it propably would need some very dark black magic.

So thanks András.

This means I will create a new custom field and have the editors copy the text from the “Recurrence Description:” field to paste it in that new custom field.

It’s not a very nice solution, but feasible.

[Andras]

Hello and Happy Monday,

Even if you have more rules set up (one weekly and then a custom because of February 29 or whatever, and then a monthly), that field will only show up once.

I can try to check if it would be possible to automatically copy the description of the first rule into that field if that helps. Let me know.

Cheers,
Andras

[Marianne Steiner]

Hello András

It would probably help but I solved it the pragmatic way and just created a new custom field and have the content editor copy & paste the contents from one field to the other. Or using the new field exclusively for this additional information that is used on a third website.

It’s fully working now and “documented” (with links to the threads here on https://github.com/zu/Avada-Child-Theme)

[Andras]

Great Marianne, I’m happy to hear you found a workaround. Awesome!

Since this is marked resolved I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please create a new ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

Cheers,
Andras

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