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February 25, 2014 at 4:44 am

Hi,

I would set them up as normal recurring events, a series of them for each event that occurs.

Then I would use the Custom Templates add on, along with the Recurring Dropdown template.

This would give a structure similar to this – http://take.ms/tZjpU

The lists are long (the example runs from April 1st to Oct 7th) but not overly long and they are contained within a dropdown box.

The problem though is that they cannot select multiple events in one go (using Multiple Event Registration).

However, if you are willing to test something for us, we have a different version of the Recurring Dropdown Template that will allow users to add to cart – https://monosnap.com/image/FpKb2Cq3lUfmI0pXsi0Qm5X7YytMB7

February 26, 2014 at 4:48 am

Hi,

I emailed you a copy.

February 27, 2014 at 10:57 am

Hi Tamara,

That template is used by the Custom Template Add-on, you’ll need both that and the template Dean sent you activated in order to us it.

Then create a page with the shortcode [EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW template_name=”recurring-dropdown”]

All of your events will then be displayed on that page using the template.

Does that help?

February 27, 2014 at 11:22 am

The shortcode is currently wrapped in pre tags which is causing what your currently seeing.

If you edit the page with the EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW shortcode, go to the ‘text’ tab and remove the pre tags (both opening and closing) then update the page http://take.ms/nFU6d

February 27, 2014 at 2:41 pm

Hi Tamara,

The EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW shortcode is based upon the Event List shortcode, as such any attributes that worked with EVENT_LIST should also work here. So to sort alphabetically ASC we can use:

[EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW template_name=”recurring-dropdown” order_by=event_name sort=ASC]

Notice ‘order_by=event_name sort=ASC’

We have a full list of attributes available here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/shortcodes-template-variables/#event-list

The time column (& format) I am currently looking into, this will likely need some modification to the template to suite your needs, I will get back to you on this.

March 3, 2014 at 6:37 am

Hi tamara,

Without custom development the easiest option would be to remove the time from the table.

You can do this by editing the template espresso-template-recurring-dropdown\index.php

Remove line 59 to remove the ‘Time’ header:

<th><?php _e('Time', 'event_espresso') ?></th>

and also line 126 to remove the times themselves:

<td id="start_time-<?php echo $first_event_instance['start_time']?>" class="start_time"><?php echo stripslashes_deep($first_event_instance['start_time'])?></td>

Hope that helps 🙂

March 4, 2014 at 3:12 am

Hi,

You could add this code just above the time < td > line

<?php
$x = event_espresso_time_dropdown($first_event_instance['event_id']);
if ( strpos( $x, "select" ) ) { $first_event_instance['start_time'] = "Various"; }
?>

That will make any event with multiple times display Various.

Displaying via category is definitely possible. Any Custom Template uses the Event List as a basis, so any parameter you can use with Event List you can use with the Custom Templates.

So for example, if I added these three shortcodes to a single page

[EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW template_name=”recurring-dropdown” order_by=event_name sort=ASC]

[EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW template_name=”recurring-dropdown” order_by=event_name sort=ASC category_identifier=”american-1380794310″]

[EVENT_CUSTOM_VIEW template_name=”recurring-dropdown” order_by=event_name sort=ASC category_identifier=”british-1380794320″]

I would get this http://take.ms/TcbDK

The first is all events, the second is those in the American category, the third is those in the British category.

Here is a lost of all the Event List parameters – https://eventespresso.com/wiki/shortcodes-template-variables/#event-list

March 5, 2014 at 12:39 am

Hi Tamara,

You would need to either edit the files off line or via your severs control panel (you can also do it from WordPress’ Plugin Editor page but I don’t recommend it).

I’m currently looking at improving the template to include more aspects (Various wording, MER support etc) but this may take a while due to resource constraints.