Display Events from multiple groups / pages

Hey Dale,

The Pro version of our plugin is capable of doing exactly what you describe but to do so it would also require the Multifeed extension to be used in conjunction with it to get the “collating” effect. You can find out more about the Multifeed extension here.

I hope you have a great upcoming holiday season.

Thanks David,

So, using the pro version of the plugin, multifeed support, and the date range extension I could;

Collate events from multiple sources into a list that shows events from 1 week ago going into the future. With say the old events at the top so the user scrolls down and as they go down it goes into the future?

Sorry just want to confirm.

Thanks

To affirm for you…

“Collate events from multiple sources into a list” – Yes. This is what the “Multifeed” extension will accomplish. It allows you to retrieve data (timeline posts, or videos or photos or albums or events) from multiple unrestricted Facebook sources (Page or Group accounts) and display it all in a single feed.

“that shows events from 1 week ago going into the future.” – Yes and Not really. This is bit of a conundrum for the Date Range Extension and only with events. This is because Facebook allows you to request and retrieve past events or they allow you to request and retrieve future events. It is just that they will not allow you to request and receive both past and future events within the same request.

Therefore the ” events from 1 week ago going into the future.” would be trying to perform two separate Facebook requests at one time which would not work as past and future events would not show up in the same event feed but even this only holds true if you are only retrieving events from the “Events” page and not as “Events” posted to the timeline.

If you retrieve the events that were posted to the timeline then you can obtain both the past and future events in the same feed but now unfortunately they will appear in the order of the date posted which is not really what you want but rather you are looking for a chronological order of when the events occurs which is why most event feeds are setup to retrieve from the “Events” page and not the “Timeline”.

The Date Range extension would accomplish the filtering of events to a specific time frame that are on either side of past or future (i.e. – show events starting 1 week in the future to 10 weeks in the future) or (i.e. – show events starting 1 week in the past to 10 weeks in the past) but in your example you asked for 1 week in the past and then jumped forward into the future.

“…With say the old events at the top so the user scrolls down and as they go down it goes into the future?: – Future events displayed in a feed always default the chronological order in the display from the most current event that is about to occur as showing first in the feed followed in chronological ascending order to the last event to appear in the feed will be the one that is going to occur the farthest out from the date range specified relating to the start date of the event. This is the natural “sort order” of the plugin and is not the function of either the Multifeed extension nor the Date Range extension.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by David - Smash Balloon Support Staff.

Hey @dalemiles,

I just wanted to follow up on David’s response as it’s not entirely correct. It is possible to do what you described and show events that are a week old and future events in the same feed with the older events first and the future events below. You would not need the Date Range extension to do this, but would need the Pro version of the main plugin. You can set the plugin to display events for a certain period of time after the event has started, so if you set that value to be 1 week then the feed will continue to show the past events for 1 week after they have passed, with the next events below in order of oldest->newest – or more accurately; most recent (eg: Dec 15th) to furthest away (eg: Feb 15th). To do this you would just use the settings on the plugin’s Customize page (shown here).

As this is regarding a feature of the Pro version then if you have any follow up questions then could you contact us via our website, as the moderators of this forum don’t like us to discuss paid products here.

Many thanks!

John