what determines that events are related?

[Rob]

Hey there trevellyan. Thanks for this follow-up; admittedly, this has gotten a bit outside both Leah and my areas of expertise. But I’ve asked Barry from the team to take a look here and see if he can point you in the right direction, in as timely a fashion as possible.

Really appreciate your patience so far.

[Leah]

Hi trevellyan,

As Rob noted, this is really over my head and hopefully Barry can give you some more help. But I did happen to run into a thread about disabling Related Events, so I thought I’d drop that here in case it was handy for you: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/how-to-disable-related-events/

Best,
Leah

[Barry]

Hi trevellyan,

You’ve raised some good points about the behaviour of this feature and it would definitely be worthwhile distilling them into one or more feature requests:

https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

This would have the added benefit of allowing other members of the community to potentially endorse your suggestions – which can add weight and help us to prioritize them (though the number of comments positive or negative definitely isn’t the only factor we take into account, all good ideas are welcome!).

To achieve what you want in the short term though is likely to involve more support than we can realistically offer here on the forum – and the best route may be to develop your own solution (which may or may not mirror some of the existing code) that behaves exactly as you desire.

Once again you’ve got some valid points and we are open to exploring changes here if you’re down to create those feature requests.

Thanks!

[Robert Trevellyan]

OK, I’ve added a feature request.
Does it seem odd that the ‘only_display_related’ parameter has no effect on the existing behevior?

[Barry]

Thanks, that’s definitely appreciated.

You’re right about the oddity of only_display_related having no effect and that may or may not be be a knock on effect from another problem which I’ll draw to the developers’ attention.

Thanks for your patience and support!

[infamia]

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[Barry]

I think that is a slightly different problem and it would definitely be appreciated if you could create a new thread 🙂

[infamia]

Thanks, barry. Added thread here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/related-events-seems-to-always-show-the-same-often-unrelated-events

[Barry]

Great!

[Hilleary]

I have two events with exactly the same category and tag, but both display only unrelated events with different categories and tags. Here’s one of them: http://www.mendocinomusic.org/event/chris-hillman-and-herb-pedersen/

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