Custom Recurring Dates of Different Lengths

[B. Cohen]

Hi,

We are a school and our programs are taught by authorized organizations. We list the upcoming courses of all authorized organizations on our website. We recently moved our site to WP and have been very happy with EO.

However, we have run into an issue. We have some events (courses) that are sometimes held in two parts. Listing them with EO is simple and easy when the course is broken up into two parts of equal days with the custom recurrence feature. However, they are not always broken into two equal parts. We are having difficulty figuring out how to get the correct dates to display in these situations.

For example, we have a workshop called IDME 1 which is, at minimum 10 days long. Authorized organizations can split IDME 1 class days however they want. Usually, they split it into two 5 day blocks. However, due to specific circumstances, they sometimes schedule IDME 1 into two blocks of different amount of days. We have other courses like this as well where scheduling them is an issue.

Here are the dates of IDME 1 for an authorized organization that we need to list:
April 23 – 28, 2019
September 22 – 29, 2019

Is there a way to create a recurring event with two different length of days? Because this is one course, we don’t want to list it as separate events.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Stephen Harris]

Unfortunately not at this time. The plug-in stores a start and end for each occurrence, but in generating those dates it uses the duration of the initial occurrence. Even if you manually edited the database (which would work), updating the event again would likely lose your changes.

I do hope to support this in the future, but I can’t offer a concrete time period at the moment.

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