Steve Greenham

Thanks Angelo. I gave him manage_options and that did the trick.

Thanks Jonathan, that looks like it would work if I always wanted it to always open on September for every user.

What I need is for it to set a cookie with the last viewed month each time the user changes month or when they click into a specific calendar entry, and then display that month when they return to the calendar.

At least you have given me a clue where to insert some code so I will take a closer look at inline.js.

People seem to have been asking for it for several years and it seems a really simple thing to do. It is close to being a fatal flaw with EventsManager and, along with the very slow performance, is making me consider moving to a different events engine. Expecting users to scroll through months and months that each take about 10 seconds to load, just to get back to where they were is a fundamental usability issue when you could just set a cookie each time a month displays.

Hopefully the EM team will update the page then. Thank you for responding personally, you give better support than the EM team ??

I’m using the standard Apple Calendar that comes with MacOS and is called Calendar. I would have expected it to add as a feed subscription, but that isn’t what happened when I tested as described above.

Thanks Patrick, opening the single days in a new tab is a good call but I’m not sure where I would put the jQuery? Would it be in one of the templates?

I have had some complaints about the time the calendar takes to load and have tried to optimise using https://gtmetrix.com/ as well as installing JetPack, W3 Total Cache and Google libraries plug ins. Objectively it doesn’t take significantly longer to load the page than the embedded Google calendar it replaced (both around 4.6 seconds) but it does feel that way when clicking through month by month, where Google was much faster.

My view is that the slower response is a small price to pay for all the benefits we gain from Event Manager, but it would be nice if it was quicker.

Since HTML is a stateless protocol it is hard to see an alternative to using cookies to persist state in general – its often a cookie that keeps you logged in to a site. If people block them then they have to live with the issues that result. I don’t think the privacy advocates who came up with the cookie consent directive considered this sufficiently and should have distinguished between session cookies and trackers.

Hi Patrick, that is what I would have expected to happen but CMD + R is not resulting in the deleted event disappearing from my calendar.

If I delete and then re-add the calendar (by navigating to \events.ics) the calendar is added but with no option to set the refresh frequency. On re-adding the calendar the deleted event is gone, but it looks as though it has imported a static copy of the calendar rather than setting up a feed.

Following the instructions on this page: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/calendar/subscribe-to-calendars-icl1022/mac it says to use File > New Calendar Subscription, rather than navigating to the .ics URL. This then gives a dialog where you can set the refresh frequency (the default is weekly) If you then Cmd-click on the calendar and “Get Info” it shows as a subscription.

So I’m hoping that has resolved it, but it might be worth updating your page to explain how to subscribe to a feed on Apple. Once I’ve checked it is now updating I will pass the information on to my users.

Thanks. That was it. I should have found that before asking.

Hi Angelo, that works and it is now the local copy of the form that is being displayed. Thanks.

Unfortunately, the date picker is now not working and entering a date manually throws an error telling me to use the date picker. Do I need to copy another file across as well?

Thanks. That is worth knowing but now I have restricted my events list to only the events I want to show the additional line isn’t a problem.

OK, spending more time reading through old topics I found

[events_list tag="feature"]

That seems to have resolved my blank lines issue (especially if I can combine with has_available_spaces). Sadly it doesn’t seem to be possible to pass the tag to the Events-Manager sidebar widget. That only respects filtering by categories, which is a shame because the formatting is so much better than my text box.

Thanks Angelo. I think EM gives me almost all I’m trying to achieve and will allow many more benefits that I haven’t asked about. I’ve spent a couple of days experimenting on my dev site since I asked my original questions and I’m really impressed.

If I pay for EM Pro and install on my dev site will I be able to use the same licence on my prod site? If so, you will get an order today ??