Event on 2 weeks without weekdays

Hi there, @uscarsfrance

You are correct: it is not currently possible to create a recurring event that looks for holidays when creating the recurrence pattern.

Would you be so kind as to add a feature request for this:
https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide support here for Events Calendar PRO, per WordPress guidelines, but adding that feature request will put this on our radar for Events Calendar PRO.

Thanks a ton!
Geoff

Hi Geoff. The problem with my request (and the exact same request made by other people) is that there’s a misunderstanding. We are not speaking at all about having a recurrent event. The event you see in my example is not a recurrent event. It is a single event. The point is that it looks like the whole Tribe team answers everyone that to make an event that occurs on 2 weeks (with one day for the starting and one day for the closing) implies to start with a recurrent event. This is not good. Ok, you have a single 2016 political convention starting on thursday and ending on the next tuesday. Your team considers that people are there on this convention on saturday and sunday whereas it is totally closed and people just have free time to enjoy the area ?? So the request is not at all in the perimeter on EC Pro / recurrent event / no show on WE but just on EC Standard / single event / no show on WE. Do you see better this idea ? I have tried the EC Pro to test the recurrent event but it is in no way a good start for this problem (wrong concept, extra checkboxes on the user’s GUI, etc). See you ! Franck

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by uscarsfrance.

Hi, Franck.

If I understand your example, it’s a single event that starts Thursday 8am and ends at 5pm Tuesday (6 days long)… except it’s not on Saturday or Sunday

And on your calendar you want a single event to display spanning Thursday through Friday and Monday through Tuesday (basically Thursday through Tuesday minus Saturday and Sunday).

If you want one long event like this, it’d just be a single event that spans multiple days, as described above.

If, instead, you want it to be 8am – 5pm each day, you’d have 4 separate events on your calendar: Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday. You could create these 4 manually or, with PRO, create a recurrence series on Thursday that recurs daily through Tuesday then also add in exceptions to the recurrence pattern to not occur on Saturday or Sunday (you’d have to pick specific calendar days, not days of the week).

If that doesn’t answer your question, feel free to share your idea at our feature request site: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

Hi.
So yes : “on your calendar you want a single event to display spanning Thursday through Friday and Monday through Tuesday (basically Thursday through Tuesday minus Saturday and Sunday).”
But I don’t see how you create a single event for this specific duration that does not appear as running on the view per month of the calendar.
You speaks about a recurrent event. But that is definitely not a recurrent event. It’s a basic, single, flat event, with the same trainees for the whole duration, that just should not appear in the calendar grid in the saturday and sunday boxes. And the secretary that will register the event in the GUI does not have to play with recurrence or create multiple events to hide the issue.
Other wording. When creating a single event, we just need checkboxes to tell that the event must “in fine” not be displayed in the calendar view on particular days of the total duration, in my case saturday and sunday. Or you may provide an option to hide some days / columns (like saturday and sunday) in the month view if it’s a quicker way to fix the problem. Some people tried to fix the issue that way, but with not much success as I saw and tested (css, responsive, etc.).
May you go to https://www.agnosys.com/events/2016-12/ (month view) to see the event called “Nouveaux Techniciens de Maintenance Mac 2016/2017” that spans 2 weeks and appears wrongly to run on saturday and sunday ?
Best regards.
Franck.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by uscarsfrance.

Good evening Franck,

I believe you make very good points.
You are correct, what my colleague suggested was at an attempt at a workaround as opposed to true recurring events.

Could you please that specific user request on our user voice forum: https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

This way other people can vote for it and it can gain popularity.

In the meantime, aside from programming that new feature yourself or hire one of our recommended customizers?to do the customization for you, you could always hide the unwanted events from the calendar with id-specific CSS.

For example you can hide the event from Samedi 3 using the following rule.
#tribe-events-event-2431-3 {display:none !important;}

Have a good week-end,

Geoff B.

Hi Geoff.
It’s done :
https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/17075644-event-on-2-weeks-without-weekdays
See you !