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May 14, 2021 at 4:10 am

Ok, so yes, the EE4 Recurring Events add-on is enabled on demoee.org

EE4 events (and therefore EE4 Recurring events) work differently to EE3 so if you are trying to find the exact same functionality, it isn’t available.

The EE3 recurring events add-on basically looped over your dates and created separate events for each date instance, grouping the ‘series’ together in the database so you could see all events in a series even though they were actually all separate.

EE4 recurring events creates datetimes (and tickets) within a single event. You can still create tickets that apply to specific datetimes (or all datetimes) but as a whole it’s a single event with X instances of datetimes.

So with EE4 we don’t currently have an output that shows each individual instance of an event separately like the screenshot you linked to HERE.

The EE4 event calendar can output the individual datetimes for an event, but clicking on any of those will take you to the single event with them all for you to select from.

I can create a recurring event on your demoee.org site that matches the dates you included in the screenshot to show you how this would be output if that helps? Or I can help walk through how you can do it within the event yourself to see how it works?

May 14, 2021 at 11:14 am

Hi Amanda,

I’m an admin on Demoee which means I can access your site, which I found based on your username.

However, my apologies as I think I was blind to this earlier and now I may be having a moment but I can’t figure out what your recurrence pattern is? The dates seem ‘ramdon’ to me but I may be completely missing the pattern!

The recurring events add-on is intended to create bulk datetimes/ticket within an event based on a pattern, be it X weeks/month/yea or something like ‘The first Monday/Weekday/Weekend of every month’ etc.

For you event it looks like you would be better just adding another datetime instance manually given that there doesn’t appear to be a pattern? Or am I completely missing it?

May 17, 2021 at 11:54 am

It is, it’s basically just another DateTime and ticket within an EE4 event, you don’t even need the recurring events add-on for that setup as you’re manually adding the dates anyway.

The new editor on Demoee will help keep events with more dates organized better than the current version but it can be done on either.

The main difference you’ll see between EE3 and EE4 with the above type of setup is that in EE4 each of those dates is still within a single event vs the individual event records created within EE3 for it.

On your demo site, I’ve created a quick example using some of the dates from your example to show you how this would work in EE4. There you’ll see there are 3 datetimes on the event and along with that 3 tickets.

Each Datetime is an ‘instance’ of the event (your ‘recurrence’ so to speak), it’s the date on which the vent takes place. Each ticket within the event can be assigned to whatever datetime(s) are on the event, so in this case, I just have a single ticket assigned to each individual DateTime.

Datetime 1 is assigned to the ‘June 16th Ticket (Datetime 1)’ ticket for example, sales for that ticket only apply to that specific datetime. You can also have multiple ticket types linked to each individual datetime if needed. Adding another date onto the event just means adding another datetime and ticket (or multiple tickets) for that datetime in this instance.

EE4 does not now list out 3 separate ‘events’ on the front, as it’s the same event it just happens on X,Y and Z date. You have the option to purchase those specific dates using tickets on the event rather than a totally separate event.

Does that now work for you?

May 19, 2021 at 4:35 am

Is there a shortcode that would display our events like this?

No, not currently.

The closest we have (although still not the same) is the table view template:

https://eventespresso.com/product/eea-events-table-view-template/

However, that displays the event as a single event and lists the datetimes (the output for that table can be altered). I’ve added a page to your site with the above shortcode to show how the default tale would be output, again, if you are comfortable with PHP/HTML/CSS that output can be changed.

Creating a custom table output which listed Datetimes from event as individual rows (like shown in the screenshot) is possible but will require custom development. The issue with doing it that way with EE4 is all of those links go to the same place, its still a single event with multiple datetimes.

So the user could click on the event row for September 29, 2021 8:00 am for example but still links to the event page where they need to select the correct ticket for that date.

May 19, 2021 at 9:10 am

Unfortunately not, pretty much everything within EE4 works differently to EE3, none of the code used in EE3 is close to EE4’s code/schema.

In this case, even if it was, it wouldn’t function ina way that would work within EE4.

June 2, 2021 at 5:28 am

My apologies for missing this reply.

I’ve posted a response to your other thread regarding this here:

https://eventespresso.com/topic/urgent-build-ee3-feature-into-ee4/