Another Vote for Recurring Events Fix

Hey yo.

I am using your calendar code for a roller skating rink to do the schedule. It's mostly recurring stuff and in order to have a 6:00-8:30pm session to recur every Tuesday, I have to actually set the end date out like a year. In the events display it actually says that the session starts at 6:00pm on March 16 2004 and ends at 8:30pm on March 16 2005. Now that's a lot of skating Any fixes?

Thanks! Everything else, by the way, is working well!

Jim

I'll look at it this week sometime.

This is the one problem causing me to not put the app on my site. Looking forward to a fix.

Thanks
Jason

This is the one problem causing me to not put the app on my site. Looking forward to a fix.

If an event is reoccuring, then perhaps assumption should be made, that its end time is on the same day as the start, or if the start time is say 15:00 and end time is 01:00, then assumption is that the end time is immediately the next day. So for displaying event details, if its reoccuring, then the end day is the same as the start, or if the end time goes into the next day, then the day immediately following.

Thanks
Jason

Although it looks like an assumption cannot be made that a recurring event will not go for multiple days.

Perhaps there should be a reoccuring_event_end_date added to the table.

Looking forward to fix.

Look here: http://codewalkers.com/forum/index.php?action=displaythread&forum=ltwcalendar&id=230&realm=default and see if that helps you out.

Hi,

That does not help, because the Event Display still looks like:

Meeting at Cafe
at Geelong
Starts on March 25, 2004
Ends on March 25, 2005
All Day Event
Reoccurs weekly on Thursday

Thats a really long meeting!!! I also want to see the start
and end times displayed for the event.

There really needs to be another column added to indicate that
the recurring event ceases to recur after a certain date. If
the column is NULL, then the event recurs forever!

Alright, I think I have misunderstood the use of the 'event_end' column. I think this is meant to be used as part of the recurring logic, is this correct?

If so, then there is no way to have an event that goes for longer than a day? Is this expected functionality?

Thanks
Jason

RECURRING EVENTS:
Event_end is the last possible date an event should show up on the calendar.

If an event is recurring, the only day the event shows up is on the matching day of the week, otherwise the event shows up every day.

It is working as designed, and there are no plans to have multipe day recurring events.

MISSING START/END TIMES:
From your post,

Meeting at Cafe
at Geelong
Starts on March 25, 2004
Ends on March 25, 2005
All Day Event << LOOK HERE
Reoccurs weekly on Thursday

You have the All Day event flag set. This is what is 'masking' the event start & stop times from displaying.

Hi,

Yep I finally realised that, but my main concern is really the event display,
specifically the:

Ends on March 25, 2005

But I have hacked my copy of the code to make it a little clearer. I have
also decided to make it easier on my admin users, by having two menu options
for events. An 'Add Event' and an 'Add Recurring Event', so that I can
modify the order of the start end date/times and change some prompts, etc.

Thanks again for a useful product

Regards
Jason

I'll look at cleaning this up in the next release...