Past Events

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  • June 25, 2019 at 1:57 pm #494748

    Mike Crarer
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    Hi,

    Is there any way to enable past event dates ?

    The reason for asking is that I just downloaded all of my events in a csv file and changed one or two things and then re-uploaded.

    It overwrote all of the past events with today’s date as the event date so now they all show as current events today!

    This is a real pain and means the csv download / upload is uselsss and needs a big warning on it!

    All my events that are messed up and the past events can no longer be searched and there is no way to fix this manually, because you cannot enter dates in the past as far as I can tell.

    Thanks and best regards,

    Mike

    http://www.camperandvan.com

    June 25, 2019 at 2:18 pm #494758

    Kor
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    Hi Mike,

    Thanks for your port. On your Website backend, the option that hides past event schedules is ticked at GeoDirectory > Settings > Events > Hide event past schedules

    Please make sure that it is unticked to show past schedules on the event page.

    Thanks!

    June 25, 2019 at 2:31 pm #494763

    Guust
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    You can add past dates by typing the date instead of using the date picker.

    June 26, 2019 at 4:07 pm #494962

    Mike Crarer
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    Thanks.

    What seems to have happened is this…

    I down loaded the Events CSV file.

    When I uploaded it again after some small text changes in event profiles for one of two events.

    > All events not published when downloaded had their dates overwritten and were given dates equating to the day of the re-upload.

    > For some published events, the dates were changed such that the day became the month. Like the difference between UK formnat and USA format dates.

    I wonder if this is an issue from the change from GeoDirectory V1 to V2. Maybe these ones were entered in the V1 Geodirectory ? The change did not affect very recently added events. I am not sure where the exact cut off was / what was added before and after my V1/V2 update.

    Anyway, I have spent today undoing the changes. 🙁

    I am now very scared to use the CSV download.

    Can you guys think what may have happened and how it can be avoided ?

    June 26, 2019 at 4:51 pm #494967

    Kor
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    Hi Mike,

    Thanks for your reply. Please make sure that you’re editing the CSV file using OpenOffice or LibreOffice Calc. Could you confirm? If the issue can be replicated, send over the CSV file and share your Website WP admin access here in private reply and I’ll forward this to a developer.

    June 26, 2019 at 10:07 pm #495006

    Guust
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    Did the unpublished events have dates to start with?
    If not, then they will indeed be given today’s date.

    If exporting from V1 you need to re-work the file before importing to V2 so it matches the new column headings and order of the columns.

    If you only want to change a few by CSV, then delete the other before re-uploading, rather than overwriting all of them.

    Not sure if any of this applies in your case, but these tips may be handy.

    June 27, 2019 at 11:07 am #495143

    Mike Crarer
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    Hi, ( Thank you for your replies )

    > I used MS Word for the cvs file editor. Would that cause the issue ?… I should only use Libra and Open ??

    > Yes the unpublished events all had start dates.

    > I had converted the site to V2 some months ago. I had not exported from V1 and imported to V2. Both ex and im were from a V2 site.

    > “If you only want to change a few by CSV, then delete the other before re-uploading, rather than overwriting all of them.” OK that sounds like a good idea.

    Best regards,

    Mike

    June 27, 2019 at 12:22 pm #495157

    Guust
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    Using Word or Excel injects invisible data that will break your data.
    You should use OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

    June 27, 2019 at 1:07 pm #495172

    Mike Crarer
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    Thanks Guust – Good to know. 🙂

    June 27, 2019 at 3:07 pm #495203

    Kor
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    Hi Mike Crarer,

    Let us know if it works now.

    July 1, 2019 at 3:30 pm #495684

    Mike Crarer
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    Hi Kor,

    I am very nervous to try it because it took so long to fix . 🙂

    I will maybe set up a copy of the site and try it on that.

    Best regards,

    Mike

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