All Day Events

[Anonymous]

Franky,

Awesome, awesome work. I’m finding out more ways to do awesome things with your plugin almost every day!

I do have a question, however. Our events are week long. I just imported my whole events list into my iCal on my Mac, only to realize that they are not all-day events. Instead, they are literally one event spanning from start time, start day to end time end day. Is there some way to ignore the time of the events, or to mark them as all-day events in the events manager? Really, for my purposes, I have no need of the start and end times.

[Franky]

Yeah, not for now. I’m referring to this feature request:

http://www.e-dynamics.be/bbpress/topic.php?id=2039

I hope to get it implemented soon, I just implemented some others 🙂

[Franky]

Done in trunk

[Anonymous]

Franky, thanks for implementing this in 1.1.4, but I’m afraid that it still isn’t an “All Day Event” in iCal. It just changed the start and end times to 1AM (probably because I’m in a different time zone at the moment).

See this screenshot for an example of how it affects my weekly view: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vi88mywx1r2sidv/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-22%20at%203.04.14%20PM.png

[Franky]

From your screenshot I see that your WP has the timezone CST, and you seem not to have it. Start and end times are always entered based upon the WP timezone, so maybe you should correct that? See the general settings in the wordpress admin section.

[Anonymous]

That’s not the point. The point is that the events in iCal are not all day events, they just happen to span an entire day on the day. I don’t know if that makes any sense.

To illustrate, from the screenshot above, see the orange bar at the top of the screen that says “SF WEEK – Ft Walton Beach, FL”? That is an all-day event. The event in the purple (from EME) is not, and therefore it blocks out every minute of the day on the day, instead of occupying the appropriate “All Day Event” section at the top.

The way the iCal event can achieve the “All Day Event” status, at least from the OSX Calendar app standpoint, is to check the “All Day Event” checkbox. See screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhmsd5c5i2hxjos/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-23%20at%2012.00.49%20AM.png

As far as how exactly to get that checkbox checked in the iCal feed, I did some comparing of feeds. I compared my Google Calendar ics feed with the one that EME produces. I used the two events in the screenshot as examples.

Google Calendar (produces true “all day” events)

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140119

DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140125

DTSTAMP:20131223T051257Z

EME (produces events that span an entire day on the day)

DTSTAMP:20131223T050646Z

DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140119T000000

DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140124T000000

So then, it appears that “All Day Events” only use the date (DATE:20140119), whereas, what EME is currently producing includes much more than that.

Hopefully that should be the data you need to fix the problem.

[Anonymous]

Of course, we don’t want ALL events to be all day events, and thus formatted like this in the ical feed, just the ones where the “All Day Event” box is checked in the EME event compose screen in WordPress.

[Franky]

Ok, got it 🙂

I didn’t know ical had a special status for this (but I should’ve thought about it, now that you mention it: I saw it also in calendars).

So I’ll try to mimic what google does for ical here.

Moving to bugs for this.

[Franky]

Should be fixed with this change:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/828842

[Anonymous]

Strong work, as usual.

One minor bug, however. It appears that all of my multi-day, all-day events are coming up one day short in my iCal feed. No idea why. See screenshot below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bapapjoze5vwj5t/Screen%20Shot%202014-01-29%20at%2012.02.46%20PM.png

[Franky]

Ok, this should fix it (explanation is in comment):

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/847949

[Anonymous]

Thanks, looking forward to the update.

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