Trouble with Event Builder event display

  • Resolved gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)


    10 years ago

    I’m having real problems getting events displayed correctly when I use the Event Builder. I’ve run across several distinct issues but maybe they’re related. These problems do not show up when I use the “Simple Display Options” checkbox. The bad formatting shows up both in event display in tooltips from a grid widget and list view on a page. I have installed GCE 2.1.3.

    Problem one, that was alluded to in another thread: there are HTML droppings: unclosed p, br and div tags at the end of the event.

    Problem two, GCE event shortcodes sometimes didn’t get parsed and showed up “raw” in the event output. This seemed to happen more often if I had shortcodes next to each other without a space (e.g. “…gce-shortcode][next-gce-shortcode…”).

    Problem three, at one point I made a change to the Event Builder and suddenly the entire event was being shown in a small calendar grid, instead of in a tooltip. This just happened once and I don’t have any details of what I did to make that happen.

    Problem four, events with descriptions seemed to insert an extraneous paragraph (“<p></p>”) into the calendar grid, changing the row height and making the grid uneven.

    I am using TinyMCE Advanced, which was also suggested as an issue (inserting extra tags, and I do have the option to “stop removing <p> and
    tags” turned on. I tried editing to remove extra line feeds etc. and I got any of the various problems above depending on how I rearranged things.

    Any thoughts on getting Event Builder to work better?

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  • Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    Does it work correctly if you disable the TinyMCE Advanced?

    Thread Starter gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)

    Probably should have tried that first, shouldn’t I? Duh. That seems to fix things, so it’s something about how TinyMCE is inserting markup. I’ll just disable it to make Event Builder changes.

    However, I still have one question that the “if-multi-day” shortcode seems to create multiple instances of events for every day it is active. E.g. if an event starts on Day 1 and runs through Day 5, instead of one event listed on Day 1 only, there are 5 events, one on Day 1, one on Day 2, one on Day 3, etc.

    Is that how it’s supposed to work?

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    In general, yes that is how it should be working. It will depend on how you have your events to display with the event builder code.

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