Repeater doesn't work like I expected. As soon as an event finishes I thought the date of the event would update too to the next session of that event. What happens instead is the date originally set for the event is used until you manually update it. This includes on the countdown timer which just shows 00 hrs 00 mins 00 seconds when the event has passed. My understanding was that it would automatically update to countdown to the next event session. I have checked to see whether there's some sort of setting to list old events and whether this was influencing it but it seems not. Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi yes the next instance of the event appears on the calendar but the set date on the backend doesn't update as would be logical, so countdown timers just read zero as soon as the event starts rather than get updated to the next date of the next instance of that event. Given that the shortcode for the coming soon page takes the ID of the event (and that isn't linked to just one instance) I was expecting the timers on that page to update with the next instance too.
Also old events are showing in boxgrid mode - I basically just want old instances of an event to disappear off the calendar and the timers linked to all event instances (i.e the coming soon page) to update to the next instance. At the moment I have to manually update the date in the back end when and event finishes so the timers update and the old instance is removed from the calendar. Not at all what I thought the repeater function would offer. Many Thanks
Repeater doesn't work like I expected. As soon as an event finishes I thought the date of the event would update too to the next session of that event. What happens instead is the date originally set for the event is used until you manually update it. This includes on the countdown timer which just shows 00 hrs 00 mins 00 seconds when the event has passed. My understanding was that it would automatically update to countdown to the next event session. I have checked to see whether there's some sort of setting to list old events and whether this was influencing it but it seems not. Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi,
The repeater creates instance of the event for each occurence depending on the repeat settings.
E.g. if the event is set to repeat weekly on the front-end you should see the event on the same day every week.
Stachethemes Developer
Hi yes the next instance of the event appears on the calendar but the set date on the backend doesn't update as would be logical, so countdown timers just read zero as soon as the event starts rather than get updated to the next date of the next instance of that event. Given that the shortcode for the coming soon page takes the ID of the event (and that isn't linked to just one instance) I was expecting the timers on that page to update with the next instance too.
Also old events are showing in boxgrid mode - I basically just want old instances of an event to disappear off the calendar and the timers linked to all event instances (i.e the coming soon page) to update to the next instance. At the moment I have to manually update the date in the back end when and event finishes so the timers update and the old instance is removed from the calendar. Not at all what I thought the repeater function would offer. Many Thanks
In your shortcode add upcoming_only=1
Example:
With this parameter added, expired instances won't be shown.
Unfortunately the coming soon template doesn't support recurrences.
We're making big overhaul of the calendar and this will be addressed.
Stachethemes Developer