Feature Request

I am not part of support just some dude…
I sort of understand your situation.. I have thousands of events through year… and often go back to a previous year to easily re-edit the event, to this year.

Part of what you are talking about.. is recurring events…
which I am sure you understand… an individual day change, must be “Detach” from the group of recurring events. And I can see how this part might be laborious.
I don’t see how this could be done quicker unless there was some way to incorporate into clicking “Detach” and it would automatically open up the event for editing.. which I guess is why most people “Detach” an individual event from a group of recurring.

For individual events, not recurring.. say for example I want to go back and re-edit all last years events for Christmas… for this year.

I use my search form to find my events, usually by date and the category…
But what I do before that, on a temporary basis… is in my default settings for Event Lists.. is add in some place holders… which pertain to editing an event..

#_EDITEVENTLINK
    Inserts a link to the admin or buddypress (if activated) edit event page, only if a user is logged in and is allowed to edit the event.
#_EDITEVENTURL
    Inserts a url to the admin or buddypress (if activated) edit event page, only if a user is logged in and is allowed to edit the event.

So the results of my search.. in the event list is a link to edit the event.. obviously you can right click “Open in New Tab” the results of your search page remain intact.. or add in your temporary coding html target="_blank" attribute to your links

For the Calendar… ie [fullcalendar] aka WP FullCalendar companion plugin
unfortunately… I haven’t found a way (this morning) to add an Edit Link.. without hacking the source code.

But.. you could make a page with the default Calendar shortcode..
[events_calendar full=”1″] that you could use for yourself and the user wouldn’t see it..

Admin Settings -> Events
click the tab Formatting… scroll down to Full Calendar.. click to expand..
Event Titles
Using something like this…
<li><div style="border:1px solid;background-color: #_CATEGORYCOLOR;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>#_12HSTARTTIME</strong><br />#_EVENTLINK <br /><a href="#_EDITEVENTURL" target="_blank">EDIT</a></span></div> </li>

WP FullCalendar won’t allow you to add html tags to the title in the Calendar, and thusly it seems the place holders that are links that I have mentioned here don’t work.

If somebody has a better idea… go for it ! (and don’t forget to tell us ?? )
Hope this helps…

Hi,

Thanks for much for your help with this – good pointers.

I’d love to get it working within the full calendar. That would totally be the best way to edit events because it’s so visual and it’s so easy to navigate around all your courses. If you have any bright ideas how to do this it would be great – I tried to insert #_EDITEVENTURL into the Event Title but it just turns into into a normal link to the event.

It would be totally cool to have an -edit- button next to every event on the calendar when logged in with admin. It would make a huge different – maybe not so hard to code?

If you can offer any more advice – greatly appreciate your time. Don’t know who you are but your very kind giving that time,

Thanks Mr Dude ??

Chris Skelton.

You are welcome… I learn by trying to figure out what other people are trying to do.

I don’t think it will be an option with the WP FullCalendar companion plugin.
It is heavily javascript oriented.. It strips out the html code.. which you figured out when you tried to put the placeholder to edit.

I looked at the javascript files.. and I am sure it could be done.. but it is one of those things that keeping it simple is the best option.
Often… when a plugin or program is stripping out html there may be a security situation for that reason.

I think that the best option is using my approach with the default calendar..
Make a separate page… with my suggestions above with the shortcode
[events_calendar full=”1″]

I will also use this approach… sure it’s not as pretty as the other calendar.. but who cares… it just us editing.

I would make (mark) the “edit” calendar page as private… that way search engines don’t access it… and people don’t (and search engines) get confused to use which calendar.

Also… the reason I used the temporary approach to my adding the “edit” placeholder I mentioned above is because it’s just an extra link people might accidentally click…
It’s just extra clutter on a post or page… that a normal user doesn’t need to see.

I think people hate when they accidentally click the wrong link.. particularly on their mobile devices which is most of our traffic these days.

I’ve notice the Developers use tabs, in place of spaces in their coding…
ahhh… the old controversy “ala” Silicone Valley tv show…

While you didn’t mention it… it would be cool.. (to eliminate the extra clicks)…
if when “Detaching” a recurring event.. it would refresh to edit that detached event.
Wink.. wink.. nod.. nod.. to the developers ??

Hello my Friend,

Of all the dudes – you are THE dude, King dude, dude amongst all dudes! That’s perfect! It’s just what we were looking for – [events_calendar] with your event title code above worked a dream.

Who cares what the calendar looks like – that’s awesome – really appreciate your time to write this answer. It’s super kind of you – you’ve made a real difference in another part of the world. We are a charity that run meditation classes & retreats for people so, thanks to your small acts of kindness, many people will benefit!

Wish I could get your email address!!!

Take care my friend,

Best wishes,

Chris Skelton.

well.. I wanted to make our “editing calendar” look nicer..

So in the “title” box.. made a small adjustment to make the “Edit” standout..
obviously you can change the colors to what you like..
<li><div style="border:1px solid;background-color: #_CATEGORYCOLOR;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>#_12HSTARTTIME</strong><br />#_EVENTLINK </span><br /><span style="background-color:yellow;border:solid 1px black;border-radius:2px;padding:1px;"><a style="font-weight:bold;color:blue;" href="#_EDITEVENTURL" target="_blank">EDIT</a></span></div> </li>

and then in your child theme or if you have a CSS Editor..
you can play around with this styling..

table.em-calendar td.eventful a {
   color: #0000ff !important;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}

table.em-calendar td.eventful-post a {
   color: #0000ff !important;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}

table.em-calendar td.eventful-today a {
   color: #0000ff !important;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}

table.em-calendar td.eventful-pre a {
    color: #0000ff !important;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}

table.fullcalendar td {
    min-width: 140px;
    max-width: 140px !important;
}

and play around with removing sidebars and making the page fullwidth will help..
you’ll have to figure that stuff out on your theme

good luck

Wow, that is really amazing.

It’s all copied in and looks wonderful.

Thanks so much! Really awesome.

I was trying to work out how it might be possible to put a “TRASH” option and a “DUPLICATE” in calendar – perhaps if EM developers offered that as a placeholder it could be a feature for the future?

Mr Dude (Rob?), If you live near Brighton, UK – or Sarasota in Florida let me know – I’ll take you out for a drink! I owe you one my friend.

Best wishes,

Chris Skelton.

I’m pretty sure there are no plans to add placeholders for duplicating and trashing events. They might be something that could be done with custom coding.

Hello Mr Dude (Rob?) – who gave me the code to the editable calendar.

Can I take a look at your website that you run your calendar on?

Also, do you know if the small calendar (events_calendar) has different timezone settings to the fullcalendar? I just clocked over the new year and one still says 2017 (events_calendar) and the other one is now in 2018 (fullcalendar)

Best wishes,

Chris Skelton.