{"id":1023608,"date":"2015-11-10T01:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-with-several-possible-start-dates\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:30:59","slug":"event-with-several-possible-start-dates","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-with-several-possible-start-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Event with several possible start dates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,
\nI am building a sports competition booking website and need to work around a small problem.
\nI am running event calendar pro with ticket and filter extensions<\/p>\n

Events are made up of qualifiers, with a choice of dates for competitors to enter, and a final.
\nThere will be many (200 +) competitions in a given year so players must be able to see all the dates on the calendar to avoid clashes in entries.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example to explain:<\/p>\n

“competition A” has 8 qualifiers session on weekend 1 sat am \/ sat pm \/ sun am \/ sun pm & weekend 2 sat am \/ sat pm \/ sun am \/ sun pm. A player need only enter ONE qualifier out of the 8 available. The final is on weekend 3.<\/em><\/p>\n

My solution<\/strong> – so the events appear on the calendar on all the days it can run
\nCreate 3 “events”:
\n1. weekend 1 qualifier with 4 possible tickets to buy – sat am \/ sat pm \/ sun am \/ sun pm (one for each of the 4 sessions)
\n2. weekend 2 qualifier with 4 possible tickets to buy (one for each of the 4 sessions)
\n3. final No tickets available as players must have entered one of the previous qualifiers to play
\nThen assign each of those event to a unique category “Competition A” so the 2 “related events” appear below the event page.<\/p>\n

What I need help with:<\/strong>
\n1. My issue is that I also need to allocate this “competition A” to a larger category of events.
\nSo “competition A” would be assigned to a master category and also to “competition A” category BUT I only want to show the relationship between the 3 events falling under “competition A” and not show any related events from the master category.
\nHow can I achieve this ?
\nIs there a way to use a combination of categories and tags and only use tags to display “related events” below each event ?<\/p>\n

2. Of course this means that potentially this will multiply events if they’re all like this, so is this the best way to go about it or is there a better trick ?<\/p>\n

I hope I have managed to explain this clearly enough. Let me know if you need more details.
\nI look forward to hearing from you
\nHugues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1023608","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nEvent with several possible start dates -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-with-several-possible-start-dates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event with several possible start dates -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I am building a sports competition booking website and need to work around a small problem. I am running event calendar pro with ticket and filter extensions Events are made up of qualifiers, with a choice of dates for competitors to enter, and a final. 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