One more thing I discovered:

I try to hide this info for normal user with the following code:
[eme_if tag='#_IS_USER_IN_GROUP{admin}' value='1'][eme_if2 tag='#ESC_NIGHTS_TILL_START' gt='1']Happens in #_NIGHTS_TILL_START days[/eme_if2][eme_if2 tag='#ESC_NIGHTS_TILL_START' eq='1']Happens tomorrow[/eme_if2][eme_if2 tag='#ESC_NIGHTS_TILL_START' eq='0']Happens today[/eme_if2][/eme_if]

I added me as a EME person and this person in a EME group called admin, but I can’t the the hidden part. It is also not shown for logged out users. If I set the value to 0 everybody can see it.

I’m sorry. I replaced the two lines and now all events are happening today. #_NIGHTS_TILL_START/END are always 0. I checked again both changesets and verified that I replaced all the lines correctly.

And for the is_user_in_group issue I also have more information:
I had already linked the persons to their accounts, but I checked again. First I looked at the group again and noticed that the list of persons only contains small boxes with x (to delete), but no names or anything else to distinguish. I can delete and add the persons again. So I took a look at my person. (As it was a spontaneous idea and seemed a fast and easy way to hide the days-left-part I created the EME persons for the admin group only by giving them a firstname and the link to the wp account, nothing else.)
The admin group is listed, but the linked WP account field is empty. I can select and update the profile, get a success message but when I open the profile again, the link is gone. The WP account profile is also very basic, also no surname. I guess when I fill in more and more data, the link will be possible, but I thought it might be helpful to remove this bug. There are no name collisions.

Hmm, curious.

I noticed the advice under the field to link but so far there are only WP admin users and the EME persons I created were the first EME persons. There is no chance that I can link any EME person with any of the WP accounts. Process ends always with a success message but without change.

My NIGHTS-Code is still the same as above. If I just put #_NIGHTS_TILL_START somewhere to see the value, it is 0. #_DAYS_TILL_START is still giving a number. I checked the replaced lines again.

I am confused.

The code starts in my eme_events.php in line 2558 and looks like this right now:

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_DAYS_TILL_START$/', $result)) {
         $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_start'],$eme_timezone);
         $replacement = $eme_date_obj_now->getDifferenceInDays($eme_date_obj);

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_NIGHTS_TILL_START$/', $result)) {
	 $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_start'],$eme_timezone);
	 $replacement = $eme_date_obj_now->getDifferenceInDays($eme_date_obj->endOfDay());

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_DAYS_FROM_START$/', $result)) {
         $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_start'],$eme_timezone);
         $replacement = $eme_date_obj->getDifferenceInDays($eme_date_obj_now);

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_DAYS_TILL_END$/', $result)) {
         $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_end'],$eme_timezone);
         $replacement = $eme_date_obj_now->getDifferenceInDays($eme_date_obj);

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_NIGHTS_TILL_END$/', $result)) {
	 $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_end'],$eme_timezone);
	 $replacement = $eme_date_obj_now->getDifferenceInDays($eme_date_obj->endOfDay());

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_HOURS_TILL_START$/', $result)) {
         $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_start'],$eme_timezone);
         $replacement = round($eme_date_obj_now->getDifferenceInHours($eme_date_obj));

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_HOURS_FROM_START$/', $result)) {
         $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_start'],$eme_timezone);
         $replacement = round($eme_date_obj->getDifferenceInHours($eme_date_obj_now));

      } elseif ($event && preg_match('/#_HOURS_TILL_END$/', $result)) {
         $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_end'],$eme_timezone);
         $replacement = round($eme_date_obj_now->getDifferenceInHours($eme_date_obj));

      }

The moment I copied it, I noticed that lines like $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_end'],$eme_timezone); have been like this in my file: $eme_date_obj = new ExpressiveDate($event['event_end_date']." ".$event['event_end_time'],$eme_timezone);

I thought that was the explanation but even after changing I only see 0.

Group issue:
I added the extra column and none of the persons has a linked WP account. It doesn’t matter which of them I try. So I went further and added some more profile data. It seems that both, the person and the WP account, need to have a surname and an e-mail address and that these data have to be exactly the same. Then it works.

That is not clear for me. How to go on? What means to download the dev version?

Concerning Group: To make it clear again: It all happened without any booking. I created the persons in the dashboard and there was no data copying happening. It was the other way round. First I had to sync the three fields (lastname, firstname, email) manually then the system linked the profiles. I was logged in as admin, created a new person in the dashboard, only with my firstname, choose my WP account and saved. I got the success message, but the link wasn’t made. So I put in the same email address in my EME person profile as I have in my WP account profile and still got no linking. So I filled in a lastname for both profiles and then I could link them. Same for all the other persons I created that way. I had to verify that firstname, lastname and email address are the same to have a successful link.

Hmm. I don’t know where and how we lost each other. There is some kind of misunderstanding. My point is: In the dashboard I created a EME person and used the dropdown field to link it to a WP account. I saved and received a success message, but the link wasn’t saved by the system. So for me this isn’t right, an error, a bug, because there was no successful update/saving of my settings. I found out that this link setting is only saved when EME an WP profile are equal in firtname, lastname and email address. What would be okay, but it is not indicated and not demanded by the success message. There is only one WP user with firstname Jan, and one EME person with firstname Jan. No links existed and no links could be made/saved. I added bit by bit some more information: same email address for my EME person as it is for my WP account. Still the link that I choose in the EME profile wasn’t saved. Finally I entered a lastname in my WP account and my EME person than the link was saved. At no point there was an advice that these data were needed to successfully save the link.

And for the main subject: I am more than okay with having it in the next release. It wasn’t and isn’t that urgent. Thank you very much for adding it that fast.

Great news. I am glad that we resolved it 🙂

As I already fixed it manually and have no need to link more profiles, I won’t use this changeset. But it is nice that this will be fixed.

Merci beaucoup!