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December 16, 2020 at 5:14 am

Though just so I am clear in my head about this, it is possible to show “Start Date” on the event list just for events over multiple dates (rather than it having to be done for all events – for single day events, we would just want to it to say “Date”).

For events that have the ‘Event Start Date’ and ‘Event End Date’ set to different dates then you can check the value and use ‘Start Date:’ and output the start date.

If they match, display ‘Date:’ as it does now.

And it is also possible to have the iCal download include all the days?

The iCal would show an end that started on {start_date} through to {end_date} rather than splitting it into separate days, will that still work for you?

December 17, 2020 at 5:06 am

So when you say check the value, is that a value that’s already available to be checked with Event Espresso 3, or would it be there to check after the modifications to the code you mentioned?

If would be a check within the code itself, so lets say you have event start date set to 2020-12-25 and the event end date also set to 2020-12-25

Within the code used to output the event_list we can do something like:

if( $event_start_date === $event_end_date ) {
    echo 'Date:';
} else {
    echo 'Start Date:';
}

In English, if the start date matches the end date, output ‘Date:’, otherwise output ‘Start Date:’. So events on a single day still use ‘Date’ and other use ‘Start Date’, is that what you are looking for?

Also, just checking that it wouldn’t really be an easy option to have the date range showing on the event list, rather than modifying date and start date labels?

You can have the date range output if preferred, it will still require custom code but can be done so it’s really whichever you prefer.

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Side note – is there something preventing you from updating to EE4?

December 23, 2020 at 8:38 am

Hi Joe,

My apologies for the delay on this, I’ve just replied to your support token via email. If you can follow up there I’ll get this fixed up for you.