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Hi George,
I did set up the sites according to the guidelines. Further, Geoff said that he reproduced the problem. I don’t know if he used the log-in I provided to my site or used his own test site. I had the impression that he’d used his own site, although he didn’t specifically say so. I’m sure if he used his own site, it would have been set up correctly.
Regards,
KeithGeorge,
Leaving aside the Facebook issues and concentrating on the specific WPML issue I have raised.
You have mentioned twice in this thread the core TEC is compatible with WPML. Elsewhere on the site it says that you support it. I remember reading a blog post about WPML when I was looking at the various Event Calendar options. That post talked about how exited you all were to officially support WPML. It was another deciding factor in my decision to choose the TEC over its competitors.
The bug that I have raised in this thread IS core TEC. How much more core can you get than creating an event? The links to Organizer and Venue are part of Pro, but the creation of an event is clearly part of the core.
I don’t believe this problem is anything that you have yet investigated. To re-iterate: if you create an event using the core event page, and include a new venue or organizer, neither is created correctly. Is that not core TEC?
This bug must be affecting everyone with WPML installed.
Regards,
KeithHello George,
What I want is to get my site working. I don’t want a refund. As you can see I bought the licenses in October. I’ve been working on the site since then. The time I have invested in this project dwarfs the cost of the licenses.
I have to say that since I’ve been reading these forums I have noticed a pattern.
When I was first evaluating the various Event Calendar products, one of the major deciding factors in choosing The Events Calendar was that it seemed to be well supported. The license fees are much higher than those of the competitors, many of whom have a one-time payment model and free support for life, but it seemed to me that paying extra for TEC licenses would be money well spent, if it meant getting solid support.
What I regularly see in the forums however is the kind of reply you have written above. It’s very friendly, very apologetic, but the message is always the same: we will fix it when we can. We can’t say when that will be. Sorry. End of story.
It’s weak to say that WPML is hard and weird and so you haven’t been able to fix it in over a year. You’re charging substantial license fees. People paying those fees have a right to expect the people receiving them will be professional and capable of dealing with hard problems. That’s what you pay professionals to do.
What possible ideas can I have about how to fix it? To fix it you need to allocate resources to it. You need to prioritize it. You could allocate someone to it and tell that person to keep this thread updated. The Facebook problem I can deal with myself by manually deleting duplicates. Not so for the WPML one.
Regards,
KeithHello George,
I was actually most interested in getting images into TEC from a non-WP location on the server. Following your comments that the process is basically core-WP, I’ve been able to get it working using a straight WP solution.
Thanks for your help,
KeithHello Geoff,
Thanks for getting back to me. This is a major problem for me. I’m creating events with Community Events, with the Facebook Importer, programatically, and via the basic Event Creation page. It’s not clear which of those are affected by the bug. As Community Events appears to be a just a front-end to the Event Creation page, I imagine it will be present there. I’ve created a new thread to address the whole subject here.
Regards,
KeithHi George,
Thanks for getting back to me. Knowing how to do both of those would be useful, but main aim is just to set the featured image.
Cheers,
keithHi,
Nothing to add, but I want to keep track of this thread and be notified of replies.
As an aside, it would be good if the forum software had a “subscribe to this thread” function. I often find myself wanting to follow threads raised by other people, although I don’t have any specific input of my own.
Keith
Hi George,
That’s great. Thanks. I was up to speed on the Facebook events hook, and I’ll go through the templates-tags folder. Just one more quick question, if I can. To actually update the Additional Field that I’m going to create, what function to do I need? That is, once I’ve retrieved the data from the Venue how do I write it to the Additional Field?
Thanks for your help,
KeithHi George,
Thanks for the response. I realise that you don’t get involved in customization support. What I am a little surprised about is that you mention that what I want to do would require a substantial amount of coding.
If we take for example the Facebook import hook that we talked about in the other thread (https://goo.gl/WuHJ5M), I was thinking that I could achieve what I’m wanting to do like this:
1. Create an “Additional Field” called Province in the TEC Pro tab.
2. Assign a function to the hook, as described in the other thread. That function would work as follows:Every time a Facebook event is stored to the database:
1. Read it back and get the State/Province field from the venue address
2. Update the Additional Field Province with the value read above. (is there a function that I can call to update an Additional Field?)(I’m making a distinction between what is referred to as an Additional Field in the TEC Pro tab, and the “Add Custom Field” box which is available when you’re editing an event. As I understand it, Additional Fields can be used in the Filter Bar whereas Custom Fields cannot).
Cheers,
KeithHi George,
I’m pulling in a lot of events automatically. They have values in the State/Province field of the Venue address. I’d like users to be able to filer on that field. That is, I’d like them to be able to display only the events for venues in a particular province.
As I see it, I can create a custom field called Province and add that to the filter bar. I would then have to manually edit every event to copy the value from the Venue address to the Province field. I would like to automate that process.
Cheers,
KeithPlease delete this. I must have clicked on the wrong forum. It is intended for the Filter Bar forum.
Hi George,
Thanks for that. What I’m wanting to do is add categories or possibly custom fields to the events when they are created. I’m assuming with the event_id I can access the event that has just been created and make the necessary changes.
Cheers,
KeithHi Geoff,
Thanks for the response. I have to admit I’m disappointed to read what you’ve written. I was referring specifically to the comment below, made by Admin on 27th March. From what you’ve written above, it sounds as this is no longer even on the radar, let alone close to release.
Over the past few releases we have rolled out a number of shortcodes including allowing you to embed the Mini Calendar and List Widget into pages. We are also hard at work on making the the full calendar views, such as Month, List, etc. embeddable via shortcode. That is no small undertaking and requires some significant underlying architectural changes. This will allow you to embed the main calendar view with the Tribe Bar on other pages, including your home page. This will be released in the coming months. Thanks for all the feedback! We are very excited to offer a full suite of shortcodes.
Cheers,
KeithHi George,
Yes that is already set to the default template. I think it was that name that led me to php file in the first place.
I have noticed something else regarding the SuperSocializer plugin. I mentioned above that it has it has its own settings. I see now that those settings are causing the sharing bar to appear on all but the month and week views. Is there anything special about those views?
Cheers,
Keith
