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Richard Teachout
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May 8, 2014 at 9:03 am
I LOVE THE NEW EE4 Events Calendar! The ability to add multiple days to a single event TOTALLY ROCKS.
I do have one feature request for the calendar display:
“Only Show Start Date on Calendar”
We have events that run 8pm-2am (Friday/Saturday for 6 weeks), but we only want to show the calendar event on on a single day (we consider 2am Saturday still Friday Night), so we don’t want the event to span 2 days in the box, and only be displayed on the day the event starts – changing the time to midnight makes it only show up on the one day, but doesn’t properly reflect hours we’re open, etc.
Think a bit flag like that could be added to the next update? So if we wanted to have a multiple day event span on the calendar we could, but if we only want the event to show up on the start day we could also by checking the box/dropdown, etc.
THANKS FOR ALL YOU GUYS DO!
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Richard Teachout
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May 8, 2014 at 9:23 am
I bandaided myself by changing line 313 in EE_Datetime_In_Calendar.class.php
and updated
‘end’=>$this->_datetime->end_date(‘c’),
to
‘end’=>$this->_datetime->start_date(‘c’),
I realize that won’t propagate updates, but hopefully you’ll add something that does this in the next version, and it won’t matter 🙂
Thanks!
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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May 8, 2014 at 1:25 pm
Hi Richard,
I can create this as a feature request but it would be helpful to know why you only want to show the start date. I did see your note about the event happening on a Friday night but it does actually span across two days.
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Lorenzo
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Richard Teachout
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May 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Yes, but we are only “open” Friday and Saturday night, so someone buys a ticket to come Friday night ( between 8pm and 2am ) or Saturday night ( between 8pm and 2am ), but in the calendar view, it makes it unclear which ticket to buy to go on Saturday, as the Friday event is on both days (which it’s not, customers don’t buy tickets online to come early on a saturday morning, they buy tickets to come late on Friday night.
So even though “technically” the event spans two days, it’s really only Friday night. Kinda like a bar – we consider 2am Saturday to be “Friday” still.
Showing the event “only on a Friday night” for example makes our calendar much more clear for our customers
Note: This is used by a haunted house for their online ticketing – PM me if desired and I can send you links to see what I mean
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Richard Teachout
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May 8, 2014 at 1:38 pm
My quick (Temp) fix was to just make the end date in the calendar view the same as the start date, so it only shows up once in my calendar. With EE4, I can now add multiple dates (WONDERFUL) on the same event, but with the restriction that “end time” has to be after start time (I get it) it doesn’t display logically for my industry. Having a way to “show this event in the calendar only on starting date” in the advanced settings properties of the event line item itself, and respecting that from the event calendar addon would solve it wonderfully, and give us additional ways to make the calendar look right. 🙂
Thanks!
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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May 8, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for those examples. I’ve created a report for the developers to review.
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Lorenzo
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