Switching view after filtering

[bennyhudson]

Hello,

I have a calendar that by default is in the month view. I’m only using the one filter – categories – as part of the filter bar add-on (incidentally, should category filtering not be included by default? I love this plugin, but $89 seems excessive for something that – in my mind – should have been part of the standard plugin) and it works great. However, if I filter in month view, and then change to the list view, the query is lost and all the events show up. The same thing happens if I do it in reverse (i.e. list -> month) Is there any way of carrying the query through to the alternate views?

[Barry]

Hi Benny,

Glad to hear that (for the most part) it’s working great 🙂

I’ve also shared your notes about this feature being something you’d expect to be included as standard with the rest of the team; I can’t guarantee this will change but we’re always open to this sort of feedback and it may well spark further discussion internally.

With regards to your specific problem:

However, if I filter in month view, and then change to the list view, the query is lost and all the events show up.

This is actually a known bug – we’ve got it on the tracker and will try to fix it as quickly as we can. I’ve linked this topic to the bug report so that – as soon as we’ve got something substantive to report – we can post an update in here.

Thanks again and our apologies for any inconvenience in the meantime.

[bennyhudson]

Hi Barry,

Cheers for getting back to me so quickly. Glad to hear that my feedback will be passed on, I just think that if you can’t filter events by category in the calendar view by default then why have categories in there at all? But no worries, I’ve bought the add-on now!

Thanks for the update about the list view, will keep my eye on this thread

Cheers
Ben

[Barry]

I just think that if you can’t filter events by category in the calendar view by default then why have categories in there at all? But no worries, I’ve bought the add-on now!

Well, they’re still useful insofar as if a visitor lands on “Event A” and that happens to have been categorized as a “Fancy Dress Party”, they can click that event category link and see other similar events.

WordPress itself doesn’t really provide filtering as such for it’s regular post categories, either, but they remain useful for similar reasons. Of course WP does provide a category widget, where we don’t, but it lacks the same range of possibilities (combinational filtering and other things).

Nonetheless, you make a good point and though I already mentioned this in a team chat I’d also point you to our feature request page – which has the benefit of letting other members of the community up vote ideas like this one 🙂

Thanks for the update about the list view, will keep my eye on this thread

Awesome, thanks Ben – and apologies once more for this one.

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