Programatically Create and Update Events

Having a similar issue. An event is created by Gravity Forms using their “advance post creation” tool. The event gets created, with the correct dates etc. My workflow is to set it as a draft initially and then at a later date, update the status via an API call to “publish” the event. In my case, I can update the status easily using tribe_update_event. This makes the event appear “published” in the backend, but it won’t appear on the front end, unless I go to the post and manually click “Update”. There must be some step needed to actually update the post and make sure that it is fully available to display on the calendar. I attempted using

tribe()->make( \TEC\Events\Custom_Tables\V1\Repository\Events::class )->update( $event_post_id, [] );

But it doesn’t seem to make a difference. No rows are added to tec_events or tec_occurences. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I see that example is passing a blank array into the second argument, do I need to manually get the date values etc and pass those in?

• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by noahkuhn.

Hi @noahkuhn

Thanks for your message.

I think the way you created your event is different since you’re using the Gravity Forms.

Please try creating your event by following this thread, and after that, run the script you provided so that it will create the necessary record to tec_events and tec_occurences table, and see if that works for you.

Let me know if you have further questions or concerns.

Unfortunately that would totally change my workflow, not allowing me to use the Advanced Post Creation tool any more? Is there any more advice on how I could trigger an existing tribe_events post to actually be an event with rows in those extra fields? Again, it works when I manually click “Update” on an event that has had its status changed from draft to publish programatically. At that point I can set it back to draft and “publish” it again via the api and it works correctly. Really hoping there is some trigger I can call to make the post an actual “event”.

Hi @noahkuhn – I just wanted to jump in here to share that our ORM documentation has been moved here (https://docs.theeventscalendar.com/apis/) and I am actively working on improving it, so your feedback is super appreciated!

It’s also worth mentioning that we have a bug identified where the tribe_events()->save(); functionality for updating events is not currently working but there is an internal bug ticket [TEC-4935] where we are actively working to resolve this.

I also created the Event (CPT tribe_events) from a third-party application (from Airtable), and it did not create the related records in the “tec_events” and “tec_occurrences” tables… So I had the same problem as everyone, which is not I didn’t see the event on the calendar nor did the single events page show me.

But I found the solution: When I create the event, I fill in the custom fields:
_EventStartDate
_EventStartDateUTC
_EventEndDate
_EventEndDateUTC
_EventTimezone

And now it does create the records in the related tables!!!!

Hi @hwuser

Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. It’s great to hear that you were able to find a solution to the issue you were facing.

Your input is incredibly valuable to us, and we appreciate your effort in sharing your thoughts with us. I will make sure to pass along your feedback to the rest of the team for further review and consideration.

Hi @hwuser,

I am now facing a similar issue as everyone and I would like to know how you solve this issue.

1 – You mentioned that “when I create the event …”. Did you fill the custom fields on a WP post edit page or from the third party platform (Airtable)?

2. – Also, you mentioned that ” it does create the records in the related tables”. Not sure how you run the “Airtable”, but I would like to know…

2-a: Are you publishing the event posts from Airtable APP to WP?
2-b: Do you sent all data which TEC need to be stored from Airtable APP?

I publish the event posts by fetching posts from outside (ex. Blogging site to WP) and I have the script code to store the data on TEC.

Thank you for answering in advance.

Hello @shingen0810,

I have used this plugin that creates posts or cpt when you create a record in Airtable (or in a view).
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/air-wp-sync/

At first, I did not create the records in the related tables, but by testing, by incorporating the mentioned fields, they were created.

That is why I have written it as an idea, for those who use the creation of events from third-party plugins, to try filling out these fields to see if that works for them.

Hi @hwuser,

Thank you for your replay.

I understood your comment and I have tested on my side. It is really shame to say that I failed to publish the event posts by adding these meta fields from third party WP plugin. = We still need to press “update” on the event edit page to publish the event posts properly…

As we can read and check this thread, we need to wait for the TEC team to fix this issue. I suppose the problem occurs when TEC save or store the data in DB since version 6. On our side, it does work like a charm until version 5.8.2 .

I guess there is nothing that we can do at this moment, but we are considering to connect Gravity form to TEC for publishing the event for my clients too. Well, there are many users are waiting for this issue to be solved.

For all of you being referred to the ORM methods for saving, see here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/orm-examples-not-working-as-described/

So it seems as if currently both methods do not work as stated in the docs.
I would be interested whether there actually IS a working method to change/update an existing event that has been created previously and has been visible already.

Regards

Ulrich

I miss the old TEC. The fact that the ORM methods aren’t working and it’s known they aren’t working is crazy. I’m also having issues now where the event recurrences aren’t being deleted from the wp_tec_occurrences table when deleting a post. Sheesh.

• This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Anonymous User 13711045.

Hi @thekendog ,

This topic might be the hint to open your door… don’t you think?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/post-was-published-but-not-published/page/2/#post-17824058

I have now tested with this script (automatic created posts on the events calendar) and displayed the posts nicely.

I am not sure inside of DB, since I have not checked it all…

I would like to hear your opinion on this.

All the best,