Missing basic functions

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a rough ride and hopefully we will indeed be able to address the particular issues you are facing in a timely manner.

According to the changelog, the development team seems to be lost in advanced functionalities nobody should care of as long as the basic ones are no more supported.

I’m sorry to hear that you feel that is the case — but what changelog entries in particular are you thinking of when you suggest we are lost in advanced functionalities? What in your eyes are the more basic issues that we’re missing?

If you can provide some more specifics it will be a lot easier for us to learn and improve.

Hi Barry.
The basic functionalities that are broken for a long time are here :
Wrong duration for iCal exported event :
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wrong-duration-for-ical-exported-event/#post-9557233
CSV import broken with version 4.6.1
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/csv-import-broken-with-version-4-6-1/#post-9570436
CSV Imports do not respect “SHOW MAP LINK?” and “SHOW MAP?” values
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/csv-imports-do-not-respect-show-map-link-and-show-map-values/#post-9594821
And I omit the compatibility with WPML because the issues obviously can’t be linked to your plugin only.
And as feature requests :
– I would suggest the possibility to have an option to tell that the actual CSV import flushes the entire bunch of events imported by the previous CSV import. To upgrade easier the events that have been cancelled since the last import and to be able to flush all the events that the plugin didn’t import correctly due to a bug
– we may have the possibility to declare one single event for instance with a duration of 8 days that begins on monday week 1 and ends on wednesday week 2 telling that the saturday and sunday (or other days) are “off” (so the attendees don’t have the idea that the event also occurs on these two days) ; this one is a lot more tricky and does not exist even in the paid version.
I hope that you see better what I mean by basic functions for a calendar.
Best regards.
Franck

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by uscarsfrance.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by uscarsfrance.

Hi.
It seems that issue #3 should be fixed :
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/the-event-calendar-plugin-google-map-show-showing-up/
I will be able to check that as soon as issue #2 (CSV import broken with version 4.6.1) is fixed.
Best regards.

Hi @uscarsfrance,

It sounds like you are making some progress with your issues. Once you are running the most recent versions of our plugin, please let us know if there’s anything else we can do to assist you!

Hi.
Yes for sure.
I would like that a developer tries to import in his own known good environment the file provided in the following thread : https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/csv-import-broken-with-version-4-6-1/#post-9666712
I’m not able to check if any other issues have been fixed until this main isn’t fixed or at least I know what has changed recently in the plugin so the same import file now generates buggy events.
Best regards.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by uscarsfrance.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by uscarsfrance.

Hi.
The version 4.6.4 does not fix the 4.6.x issue with the CSV import.
Here is the most basic example possible :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l8a95zkepwodvkf/calendar-events-converted-14.csv?dl=0
2 events.
The preview of the 2 events is correct but once imported, these 2 events starts and ends January 1, 1970.
Do you still expect that it is not an issue with the plug-in ?
Best regards.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by uscarsfrance.

Hi.
The version 4.6.5 does not fix the 4.6.x issue with the CSV import.
Here is the most basic example possible :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l8a95zkepwodvkf/calendar-events-converted-14.csv?dl=0
2 events.
The preview of the 2 events is correct but once imported, these 2 events start and end January 1, 1970.
The issue is reproductible on 2 different websites.
Best regards.

Hi.
Due to recent improvements and also support by the author, only these two points are now remaining to get a great experience with this plugin as far as I’m concerned :
– I would suggest the possibility to have an option to tell that the actual CSV import flushes the entire set of events imported by the previous CSV import. Actually, between each import, I have to ignore and then delete 160 events, 20 by 20. Or a button in the settings to reset the entire set of existing events (for CSV-sourced events and manually-sourced events)
– We may have the possibility to declare one single event for instance with a duration of 8 days that begins on monday week 1 and ends on wednesday week 2 telling that the saturday and sunday (or other days) are “off” (so the attendees don’t have the idea that the event also occurs on these two days) ; this one is a lot more tricky and does not exist even in the paid version.
Best regards.
Franck