Steamed

thanks for that, i’ll try that link ??

I’m thinking after all of this that the cleanest way for visitors to view the categories is if I create normal pages under the sub categories names and then just link to the relevant events from there. It’s a heap of extra work on my part but if the events manager won’t do it i guess I’ll have to.

I did try as suggested above but the events manager doesn’t list the events according to age groups as it only shows them according to events in alphabetical order which sucks.

I can’t believe all of this work went into developing an events manager plugin and nobody ever really thought of sub-categories as a requirement.

I also tried linking each swimming event to the age group category and that just looked messy – mixed with the fact that events manager displays the events in a less than pleasing manner to start with.

After a night of frustrating data entry i’m less than happy with this plugin – sorry to sound so negative.

If i intend of purchasing Pro, what would be the best way to do this then, just using the pro coding or buy the https://www.s2member.com/?plugin plugin regardless of whether I’m using the pro version or not?

This is getting so confusing for me now.

I have entered all of the events – i’ve made an entry for each specific event for each specific age group so for 1 event it has 8 separate events to match each age group that can enter that event. Now that I have done that, are you saying that instead of having swimming as the main category, i have to make categories for each age group for swimming and then place the specific events under each age group category?

This would be so much easier if this was a face to face conversation i’m sure because writing this stuff is confusing in itself.

I can handle (for now at least) having to reenter those details each time i refresh the event but do you recall if it created any other dramas with event manager? I don’t want to get to the end of my project only to find that the event manager doesn’t work correctly.

Thanks i thought i had posted there… i get so confused by these forums

I tried disabling all of the plugins except one which is the revolution slider… I’m not really in a position to do that at the moment as it contains crucial information for my website. All of the other plugins appeared to make no difference once they were disabled.

Can you recall if the problem plugin was the revolution slider… if that’s the one I can’t really see my site without using that plugin. It would be a shame if that was it.

yes but which field do I put the placeholder in? I understand (i think) the concept of place holders but i’m not sure which field to attempt this with. Can you help me out a bit more please?

Ok i tried adding the age groups and when i view the parent event category, the other sub event categories don’t show up.

For example I have Swimming as the main – Parent. I can’t actually choose Swimming as a parent within that event category, as far as I know or can see.

When i added an age group for swimming and selected swimming as the parent it appeared to save and work but didn’t show up within the swimming parent category.

What have I missed here?

Yeah i’m not sure what you’re meaning but it’s not the format that it’s showing up in, it’s the fact that I have to re-enter it every single time I edit that event. It retains every other piece of information remains and does need modification or editing but just these fields i’ve shown you always need me to re-enter them. If i don’t i’ll get an error message saying that the save didn’t work because those fields were outstanding.

it’s when i am logged in as the admin.

I tried it in Firefox and in Safari… happens in both browsers.

Just to be sure i’m explaining myself correctly, it’s the top right hand corer of this screen capture

https://s10.postimg.org/6vc8y3au1/Screen_shot_2013_05_30_at_7_37_02_PM.png

ok i’ll try it, thanks very much for your advice

no id didn’t which field do i put that in, within Events>settings.formatting>events?

So if i was to make swimming category the main (parent) category and then the age groups as the sub category (child) and then the events as normal, are you saying that will work?

sorry if i sound super dumb here.

Thanks for your response mgrmn, but i can honestly say I do not understand what you mean. I’m still fairly lost with the whole parent child thing but i’m thinking you might be talking about something completely different.

I really want it to look like this

Categories > Sub categories (category within main category) > Event

Does that make more sense?