recurring events

[Carole]

Hi,
I just uploaded 300 BIRTHDAYS to Events Calendar Pro. While they are all annually recurring events, I didn’t see any way, on upload, to assign the recurring event attribute to them. I hate the thought (hate hate) of having to edit EACH event by hand to make them recurring. Is there a simple way to do this? All birthdays are under the category “Happy Birthday”. Is there any way to assign the recurring event attribute in bulk to a single category?
Thanks,
CaroleAnne

[Cliff]

Hi Carole. Thanks for your question.

That’s an interesting use case and totally makes sense. Unfortunately, there’s not currently anything in our CSV Importer to specify a recurrence frequency.

I did see it as an existing feature request on our UserVoice idea site. I’d suggest adding your vote there.

The Modern Tribe comment on this feature request sounds like they’re wanting to support ALL recurrence patterns, which sounds very complex (e.g. recur monthly on the 5th from Jan 2016 to Dec 2016 except in June and August). However, you might add your comment there that any/some support for “simple recurrence” would be appreciated, and detail your use case as you did here in this thread.

As far as making them recurring with one-fell-swoop coding, it’s probably not easy… Here’s a screenshot of what’s in the database to make a single event (e.g. 1 birthday) recurring: http://cl.ly/3n0I220C422J (FYI: What you see for _EventRecurrence is called “serialized” data — basically, I’m pointing out that you can’t just add a WordPress custom field _EventRecurrence with the value of “annually”)

I’m not saying for sure it’s 100% impossible, but it might be. (I know that wasn’t the answer you were hoping for, sorry.)

I hope this information helped in some way.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

Thanks!

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