Hi, <\/p>\n
We bought Calendar Pro and Tickets Plus two months ago and we’re still not satisfied with either. We’ve decided to scrap and give up on Tickets Plus altogether since the way it handled tickets for recurring events was poor. <\/p>\n
The main selling point of Calendar Pro is support for recurring events. I would not have bought it if I knew this support for recurring events was only surface-level, only really works for the Month View, and requires a ton of customization to work properly for typical use cases like scheduling recurring workshops. <\/p>\n
So we’re using Calendar Pro to display when our workshops occur. They always occur in series (e.g. every Tuesday 1-2pm until [end date]). As a result, we’ve set these events up as recurring events in the plugin.<\/p>\n
Now, this looks fine and as intended on the Month view. <\/p>\n
But on the Events page (single-event.php) and the List view, it is a confusing disaster that breaks every UI\/UX rule in the book. One of the things that is just plain awful of how this works is that there is no easy, intuitive way for customers to know what event is part of what recurring series since every event is listed as its own event and looks exactly the same, and the event metadata just lists the single date, not a date range as expected. There is some hoverable text near the event title “Recurring Event (All)” but it is nowhere close to being user-friendly and our customers won’t use it nor understand it.<\/p>\n
Basically, as far as recurring events are concerned, every part except the Month view has an extremely bad user experience and this is frustrating for both myself, who spent more than $200 and two months on your products, and my customers, who think the website is a mess. I want to move forward with your product if I can, but my patience is running thin. <\/p>\n
So I’ve copied single-event.php, and modules\/details.php to the child theme in preparation for making edits. <\/p>\n
I need: <\/p>\n
a) A way to make the event meta show the date range of the event series (so first date, and end date, with a dash in-between), rather than only the date on which the event occurs. <\/p>\n
b) A way to prominently display recurrence (e.g. if an event has a recurrence of every Tuesday, 1-2pm, I’d like to add to event metadata a function that returns these recurrence rules. If there is no such function, something like returning the number of events in the series would be fine.) <\/p>\n
c) A way to completely remove “child events” in a series from appearing in List View, but not on Month View. This means only the first event in a series displays in List View, while all events appear on Month View. We’ve decided that completely removing the “child events” from the list view is better than showing every single event in a huge list with no way to tell what event is part of which series. <\/p>\n
Thanks,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1192640","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n