Event Time

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  • April 24, 2019 at 12:12 am #482428

    Jeff Adams
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    The event time, if someone doesn’t have the specific end time yet, or it’s tba, it would be great if there was a way to not put the time. I could select all day but that wouldn’t be accurate either. This happens a lot actually. Furthermore, someone may add an event and just put the basic information directing people to follow a facebook event or some other location where the event can actually be followed easier.

    April 24, 2019 at 5:02 pm #482591

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    we’ll consider your request for the future.

    Thanks

    May 3, 2019 at 2:52 am #484237

    Jeff Adams
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    Thanks, I came across this issue again today. And this is the first event I’ve tried to list since posting this. The event is three days. And everyday has different times.

    Sometimes days don’t have times. It may be nice if we didn’t have to add times. That is, if times were optional. This is sort of debilitating right now. Events are pretty important and the times are critical. I would rather not have the time than have the wrong time. And right now to get these sites going I’m entering events for people and so far more than anything it seems time is not readily available.

    Really the best thing would be to make time optional and have different times for each day.

    And this site’s events mostly are festivals that last more than one day. So, I can see this being an issue for most events.

    Here’s an example:

    https://veganlinked.com/events/united-states/delaware/rehoboth-beach/rehoboth-beach-vegfest-2/

    Pulled from this facebook event:
    https://www.facebook.com/events/2275428975810132/

    If not set for recurring it looks like the event starts on May 17th at 11am and ends on May 19th at 4pm
    If set for recurring it looks like the event is 11-4 everyday

    Alternatively they/I could enter each day as a separate event, but that would be very tedious for the lister and confusing for the the site visitor.

    May 8, 2019 at 3:39 pm #485186

    Jeff Adams
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    I really hope this can be developed better. This site I’ve been wanting to launch for a year now is going to be heavy on the festival side. And they’re almost always more than one day with varied times. And some events don’t have an end time. And some are to be determined meaning they don’t have a time yet.

    May 13, 2019 at 10:11 pm #486237

    Jeff Adams
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    Just tried to enter another event, the first one since the last time I commented here. And again a time issue. This event https://www.facebook.com/events/2251728534887116/ doesn’t have an end time. I can imagine this happening a lot. I don’t want to be misleading and put some random end time.

    This is really messing up my potential for using this very important feature. Is GD going to do something about this?

    May 14, 2019 at 2:16 am #486259

    Jeff Adams
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    Here’s an idea if it is too difficult to make both start and end times optional and per day for recurring as explained above. Instead, can we just not have time or have a way to remove time for event date? I’ll just add a custom field, like the time one or text and give them the option to explain the time. Is that an easier resolve possibly? This time field mixed in the event date field is driving me nuts.

    May 14, 2019 at 9:23 pm #486498

    Alex Rollin
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    Hi Jeff,

    Thanks for reporting this. We have a note to look at this for a future version. Thanks again for reporting your experience.

    May 15, 2019 at 12:20 pm #486632

    Jeff Adams
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    Thanks for hearing me out on this. Events are a very important part of my two sites. Both may have a lot of events that are more than one day with varying times each day, some with no end time. So, in summary, events would be a viable GD feature with the option to have no times, no end time, and/or various times. 🙂 Thanks again! 🙂

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