Viewing recurring events in List/Picture view – Not as I'd want it

[Barbara]

Hi,

I’ve been using the recurring event feature since buying the plugin, as we have a bunch of courses like Yoga, Guitar Lessons and Chess lessons that continue across the year. Except for recurring events on the same day (known issue), this feature works fine in creating the right events.

However, having them show up in the List view logically is quite a challenge:
> I have tried using the checkbox feature for users to enable or disable showing each recurring event. This appears not to be logical/does not appear to be used much

> I still miss the feature (or is it a bug?) where I can enable showing recurring events, but ALSO show the checkbox (which is, in that case, opted IN by default). So, users still see only the first instance of a recurring event, but can disable that if they want.

> As we have a few of these running courses, they tend to clutter up the entire list view of upcoming events, therefore causing single day events to be missed entirely. This is the main reason I chose to disable showing all instances of a recurring event for now, but don’t like it as much

> A better version of this feature would be to enable not showing ALL upcoming events for all weeks to come, but do show ALL instances in the upcoming WEEK (or X weeks). This means that I (and many others, I can imagine) would be able to show all relevant recurring events for the coming week, but clear up the following weeks to make sure that all single day events are not missed .

I think I have voiced the main issue with recurring events many users are experiencing but have learned to live with somehow, either by coding, or just living with the fact that users are not seeing all relevant events (or too much). Do you have any insight on this?

[Nico]

Hey Hans,

Thanks for getting in touch with us!

I have tried using the checkbox feature for users to enable or disable showing each recurring event. This appears not to be logical/does not appear to be used much

Not sure what you mean here, maybe you can try to change the wording to something that makes sense for the website public? Like Only show the first class of a course maybe?

I still miss the feature (or is it a bug?) where I can enable showing recurring events, but ALSO show the checkbox (which is, in that case, opted IN by default). So, users still see only the first instance of a recurring event, but can disable that if they want.

I guess what you are looking forward to do is achievable with this snippet (and without checking the option to only show the first instance of a recurring event in the site). Add it to your theme’s (or child theme’s) functions.php file:

/*
* Checks the front-end box "Show only the first upcoming instance of recurring events" by default
*/
function tribe_subsequent_recurrence_default( $option, $name, $default ) {

if ( $name === 'hideSubsequentRecurrencesDefault' && ! is_admin() ) $option = true;

return $option;
}
add_filter( 'tribe_get_option', 'tribe_subsequent_recurrence_default', 10, 3 );


As we have a few of these running courses, they tend to clutter up the entire list view of upcoming events, therefore causing single day events to be missed entirely. This is the main reason I chose to disable showing all instances of a recurring event for now, but don’t like it as much

Maybe you can add some CSS to lower the opacity on subsequent events of a series so that single events will be more visible?

A better version of this feature would be to enable not showing ALL upcoming events for all weeks to come, but do show ALL instances in the upcoming WEEK (or X weeks). This means that I (and many others, I can imagine) would be able to show all relevant recurring events for the coming week, but clear up the following weeks to make sure that all single day events are not missed .

I must say the use case is particular of certain calendars. It might achieved in some way probably, but crafting a snippet for that would be out of the scope of support we can provide over the forums. You are welcome to suggest this feature request at The Events Calendar user voice page, where we gather feedback from our community.

Hope the above helps,
Best,
Nico

[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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