Seeming incompatibilities with Event Calendar Pro, Tickets Plus & other plugins

[David]

Seeming incompatibilities with Event Calendar Pro, Tickets Plus and other plugins – notably WP-Types & Views which we use to build out custom views

Issues we have run into so far

Venues is not a custom taxonomy and is not queryable in the normal fashion – you store elements in their own database tables that WP-Views cannot get too – this is different from almost every other plugin on the market

It is impossible to write a view that implements a filter by StartDate or EndDate, because ‘_EventStartDate’ and ‘_EventEndDate’ are stored as strings and types stores date value as timestamp

It is impossible to write a view that implements a sort by StartDate or EndDate, because ‘_EventStartDate’ and ‘_EventEndDate’ are stored as strings and types stores date value as timestamp

In short, I need to be able to write the following views

1) All events for a given year – filtered by a shortcode parameter – with the restriction that the event start date is greater than the current date

2) All events for a given location (country from venue) – filtered by a shortcode parameter – with the restriction that the event start date is greater than the current date

3) All events for a given guide (additional field) – filtered by a shortcode parameter – with the restriction that the event start date is greater than the current date

4) A distinct list of all countries (pulled from venues)

5) A distinct list of all guides (pulled from additional fields)

This was all previously possible with a custom written WooCommerce addon – but we presumed that a move to The Events Calendar would make things easier and allow for things to be more structured, supported and moved forwards

Instead it seems to be a monumental step backwards due to the way that data is stored, both in PostMeta (dates as strings – madness) and in custom tables that appear to not be accessible via normal taxonomy methods

[Hunter]

Hi David,

Welcome back and thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately, we don’t provide support for conflicts with other plugins, though we welcome the input you’ve shared with us. The best venue to voice these requests is our UserVoice Feature Ideas page.

Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you and best of luck getting everything going the way you envision. Cheers!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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