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Kathleen Melen
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July 3, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Hello. I am using Event Espresso to create a site for a home school organization. However, there does not appear to be a way to have one course that repeats as a specific time weekly for a period of 9 months. This is making the calendar unusable. Is there a solution to this?
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Kathleen Melen
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July 3, 2014 at 3:52 pm
P.S. the schedule is here: http://3geeksmedia.com/cogsoco/program-schedule/, courses don’t begin until September.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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July 3, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Hi Kathleen,
The recurring events manager allows you to repeat an event on a certain day of the week:
http://cl.ly/image/3W0S0b2U3L1L
This applies to the automatic option.
If you manually select the dates, then you can create a custom schedule:
http://cl.ly/image/1t1338111c0Z
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Lorenzo
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Kathleen Melen
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July 3, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Thanks Lorenzo.
It appears that it is for recurring events that need individual registrations. But what about a class that they register for once, but then will need to attend weekly?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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July 3, 2014 at 7:56 pm
Hi,
You can create a start date and then an end date that is 5 months away.
In the event description area, you can clarify that the course repeats each week.
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Lorenzo
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Kathleen Melen
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July 4, 2014 at 10:24 am
Thanks Lorenzo. Unfortunately, that doesn’t solve my problem. That the calendar view is a mess when done that way. What do you think it would take to modify it? My clients might be open to paying someone for that.
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Tony
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July 4, 2014 at 10:58 am
Hi Kathleen,
The Recurring Events Manager (REM) is the best way to create these events.
REM creates copies of the event you create and using the date formula you apply in the settings. You are correct that by default each of the events could have their own registrations. However, using the ‘Alternative Registration URL’ – http://take.ms/VpUNH feature you can set your events to use another registration URL.
So you would use REM to create a Recurring Series (9 events, 1 each week) then edit event 2, input event 1’s registration URL in that field. You can find this value by editing event 1 and clicking the ‘Full URL’ button. Then apply those changes to the rest of the events (Using the ‘This and all upcoming events’ selection in REM)
What this means is if anyone clicks on any event from 2 to 9 they will actually be taken to event 1 to sign up.
Technically you do not need to use REM if you would like to create the 9 events manually they will be almost the same, REM just allows you to apply your changes to all of a series easily.
Does that help?
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Kathleen Melen
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July 4, 2014 at 11:56 am
It makes sense. My only issue is that I am trying to make this easy for my client to schedule and maintain their courses. This is quite a process to add one class in.
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Tony
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July 4, 2014 at 3:15 pm
I understand, unfortunately some event setups are easier to create/follow than others.
Within EE3 this would be the easiest way to create the event type you are trying too.
Either using REM to create the events and apply settings to all of the series, or creating multiple single events and editing them each individually.
EE4 allows you to assign multiple ‘Datetimes’ to an event making this much easier however the use of EE4 depends on you current requirements. Have you tried EE4 to see if it will suit your clients needs?
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