How to have an event with no start or end times in Edit+

(Charlotte Westney) #1

Hi everyone,

 

In Admin, if I go to the Details of a single calendar event, I can set it to have a start date, but no set start time, by just unticking the 'at' box next to the time. Same for the end date/time, just untick the 'runs' box.

 

But if I then edit that event in Edit+ there's no untick option for the times or for the end date, so all my events get start times assigned to them.

 

How do you keep an event without a start time in Edit+?

 

Thanks, Charlie.

(Scott Hall) #2

Hey Charlie

 

This is a know gap between the admin and edit experience and has been logged for future development review in our product roadmap, if you have access to our product roadmap (Squizmap) then you can contribute to idea #4108. I've made reference to this post within the idea thread to make sure it's part of the input for review. Also note related forum post at http://forums.squizsuite.net/index.php?showtopic=11571

 

Can I just confirm what you are trying to achieve within context of a use case/example and/or user types?

 

I'll post back if I can find a known workaround.

 

Cheers

 

Scotty

(Charlotte Westney) #3

Hi Scott,

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

This example is for the Yorkshire Dales site;

http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/outandabout/events

They have 100s of events, most of which are created with asset builders so can be set to not have start/end times. But if they then get edited (update metadata, add images, correct mistakes etc) the editors using Edit+ then have a problem in having to put a start/end time, or having to notify the main web editor to then correct them in Admin.

 

This will also apply to the Lake District site: http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/visiting/events

And the Peak District: http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/visiting/events/guided-walks-information

 

The editors in charge of events only have simple edit user accounts, and are only trained to use Edit+. Each Park then has a web editor who can use Admin.

 

Hope that helps! Thanks again,

Charlie.

(Bart Banda) #4

Hi Charlie,

As Scott mentioned, there is not really a way to do this in Edit+ at the moment, however it is scheduled to become part of the next release. If you are a Squiz client, you should have access to see it here: https://squizmap.squiz.net/editplus/4108 

 

We're aiming to get this developed for the next big release which will be sometime in March and will be 5.2.0.0. 

 

In the meantime, could you get away with just setting the start time as 00:00 and end time as 23:59? If you are not displaying the time on the front end for these events, that should be ok then. This would make them appear as normal for calendar listings. You could also have a conditional layout to check if the start and end time is that, don't display it on the front end and treat it as an all day event as well. Hopefully that helps in the meantime. 

 

You could potentially also do it with a custom Edit+ plugin, but that would require some extra work and someone experienced with JS and the Edit+ code.