Version 3.12 recurring event description – lasts 0 day(s) and 0 hour(s)

[chantell]

The backend displays correct “recurring event description”

The frontend displays “lasts 0 day(s) and 0 hour(s)” for all recurring events.

[chantell]

Actually, I agree with what Robert said.

Getting rid of the “Custom recurrence description” was a BAD move.

“Every Thursday” is so much nicer than:
“An event every week on the same day that lasts 0 day(s) and 1 hour(s), the last of which will begin on 2016-01-07.”

I have set the Recurrence description to “display: none” for now.

[George]

Hey @chantell,

I’m sorry about how things looked on your site and that you’ve had to resort to custom CSS just to hide this! 🙁

We actually agree with you – and Robert – about the custom recurrence description. We also found a bug which leads to the 0 day(s) and 0 hour(s) display even on events that are more than an hour long, so we’re working hard on fixing that and on restoring a better solution here.

The rewriting of our recurrence-related code was actually quite a massive undertaking. A few of our best developers worked very, very hard on it. I helped with testing it and can tell you that these smaller issues arose just from how many things changed and how much new code was written – not making excuses here! 🙂 Just trying to provide some context for how we missed this UI feature.

We’re working hard to correct our mistake(s) and our next update should address these problems, so stay tuned for that. And thank you immensely for your patience in the meantime.

I hope this information helps – your feedback is much appreciated and if you have any further thoughts on this matter or anything else, let me know!

Sincerely,
George

[chantell]

Thank you very much for the prompt reply.

I wasn’t really bitching 🙂 I dabble with a bit of coding myself from time to time and am only too aware of the complexity of a plugin such as this.

You guys are doing an awesome job!

I’ve marked this issue as resolved.

[George]

Hey @chantell,

Thanks for being cool despite our admittedly-not-awesome display of recurring event information 😉 I didn’t get the sense you were “bitching” at all, just providing some good feedback, which we genuinely appreciate!

We caught these issues late in our release cycle for the last release so stay tuned to the next release – hopefully improvements here make it into that update, and if not, then presumably they’ll arrive in the one right after.

Stay tuned!

Cheers,
George

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