Reoccuring Events Trouble

[Denise Crosbie]

I watched this video to understand more about reoccurring events…
https://theeventscalendar.com/pro-intro-to-recurring-events/
In this video it says that if you edit a reoccurring event it pops up a message that asks if this should be applied to “this event only” or “future events”. When I edit a reoccuring event it does not ask me this question. I will be having individual users adding their own events and I think this will be very confusing for them.

[Denise Crosbie]

To clarify further, if I “move to trash” from the full events list then it does ask me this question. However if I go into the actual event and edit time or location whatever and publish, then it does not ask me this question.

[Barry]

I suspect you’re up against a known bug here. Can you review and try following the instructions detailed by Jonah in this thread? (This has, incidentally, been fixed in our 3.0 code which will be released sometime soon.)

[Denise Crosbie]

K, I applied the bug fix. Another question about reoccurring events though…

Say I go to the event categories and view all events for a category – it groups together the reoccurring events into one which is good because the screen is way less cluttered. But the reoccurring event it chooses to show is some random event in the middle of the reoccurence.

For example, I have a reoccurring event from March 12 – May 31 – every Tue. But the event it lists is the random Apr 16 event. So then when I go in to edit, it thinks I am editing Apr 16th event and only updates future events with my change. Why wouldn’t it pick the first event in the series, or at least the event that is the next in the series from today’s date? For example today is Mon March 18, and I want to edit all future events starting Tues March 19, but I can’t do that because the event recurrence grouping defaults to Apr 16, so I have no way to edit the events before that.

[Barry]

I’m not sure why you’re seeing that; if I test the same thing I am taken to the first event in the series.

As it happens this is an area that is being revised for 3.0 and I believe all recurring events will display when an event category filter is applied, rather than just one of them.

[Denise Crosbie]

K, thanks for the info. Looking at it closer most of the reoccurring events seem to be working as expected, it was just one random reoccurence event, which turns out was a duplicate of another event, and I think that was what was throwing me off. I deleted it and everything else seems to be in order I think.

[Denise Crosbie]

Also, I hear a lot about this 3.0 – when is that scheduled to release?

[Barry]

We still aren’t putting a date or even rough ETA out there, but, soon 🙂

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