Date selector on event overview page does not work

  • Hi there,

    on the event overview page (admin screen, no end user problem), there is a possibility to search for events using the date with a drop down selector. There are 2 problems with that date selector:

    1. It is not possible to select events in the future, i.e. the dropdown list contains only the months in the past and the current month, but no future months.
    2. Even if I select a month in the past and apply the filter, the result list is wrong. The applied filter somehow reduces the list, but it does not behave as expected: I have a total of 102 events. If I sort the events by event date without any filter applied, I can see that 3 events were in May 2024. If I apply the date filter with May 2024, then the result list should contain exactly these 3 events, but it contains 88 events, past and future ones!

    Thanks in advance

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  • Plugin Author Alan Fuller

    (@alanfuller)

    The date selector is a ‘WordPress’ feature rather than the plugin ( see the Posts page )

    And by default the date is set when you create an event ( rather than the Event date )

    So the selector will end up showing wjhen you created the event, which by definition is not the future.

    Take look at the list you will see two columns ‘Event Date’ and at the end ‘Date’ and you will see these are different.

    You may think this is crazy, and it is really but is the way it works, unless you set a setting to make the ‘post date’ the same as ‘event date’.

    I suggest you do that, but you will have to also go into each event and SAVE to then set the post date to the event date

    Personally I cant see why this is not set as checked by default and I will add to the development log to look at doing this in the future.

    Thread Starter dillhausen

    (@dillhausen)

    Thanks for the clarification. I understand now, but I don’t like it. I’m looking for a fast way to select especially shortly upcoming events. If I order events by event date, I have to scroll through various pages in the event list before I find the present date, and can move on from there. But I never know on which page it is before I find it. Moreover, if I edit an event from the list and then return to the list, I have to do the same procedure again…

    Setting the publication date as event date does not make sense for future events, because they will not be visible before the event starts (they are planned, not published). Please don’t change anything with this!

    The main problem is that QEM does not have a real series event functionality (like in any other calendar, where you can set recurring events every Nth day/week until an end date or number of occurrences). This missing functionality requires me to add a single event for each occurrence, which blows up the event list unneccessarily and makes the search cumbersome. If you want to add something to the development log, then it should be a real series functionality.

    Thanks anyway

    dillhausen

    Plugin Author Alan Fuller

    (@alanfuller)

    Thanks for your input on that, it is really useful.

    Yes it doesn’t really have very good series features, just a way of mass producing events.

    Duly noted.

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