{"id":1089723,"date":"2016-03-16T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/strange-paging-behavior-in-month-view\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:35:08","slug":"strange-paging-behavior-in-month-view","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/strange-paging-behavior-in-month-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Paging Behavior in Month View"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I had to guess, I’m seeing the intended behavior (*not* my expected behavior), but I want to confirm and I don’t think it makes sense.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m seeing after I made a single event in February 2017 on a new site with latest WP and TEC.<\/p>\n

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  1. When I come to the calendar, I see the current month (March 2016) with no events (so far so good). I can’t go back a month only forwards (I’m intuiting that there aren’t past events, but it makes me feel weird).<\/li>\n
  2. When I do go forward a month (to April ’16), I can’t go backward to the current month, even though I was just there and left it via a paging link.<\/li>\n
  3. When I jump ahead to March 2017, I can now only go backward and not forward.<\/li>\n
  4. I now go back one month to February 2017, I can see my event and now there are no paging links<\/em> in either direction.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While the above is logically consistent, it feels wrong for a few reasons:<\/p>\n

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    1. It allows you to view something, move forward, and not move back.<\/li>\n
    2. You can still jump backwards\/forwards with the date chooser, so it’s not like the calendar is completely pointing you toward the existing events or totally blocking you from certain months..<\/li>\n
    3. I can’t think of any calendar program I’ve ever used that works this way. I think meeting that expectation with the month view is important and then users must pick the appropriate view for their use case.<\/li>\n
    4. The absence of events may still be meaningful (either they didn’t enter them or there were none).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      It seems like you’re trying to help people find events when in calendar view and looking at a month with no events, but I think this is the wrong way to do it. Why not provide a messages like “Just so you know, there aren’t any events before {Month} {YYYY}” once a user pages back to the first month containing events and “Looking for the next event? It’s in April 2017<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1089723","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nStrange Paging Behavior in Month View -<\/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\/strange-paging-behavior-in-month-view\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strange Paging Behavior in Month View -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If I had to guess, I’m seeing the intended behavior (*not* my expected behavior), but I want to confirm and I don’t think it makes sense. Here’s what I’m seeing after I made a single event in February 2017 on a new site with latest WP and TEC. 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