Changing an Event results in loss of participants

[Anonymous]

Hello Franky,

I just updated an existing event, which had already bookings, by making it an recurring (own schedule at specific days) event. All existing bookings are now gone and the participants are not longer listed for the event.

Cheers
Joerg

[Franky]

This is not a bug but by design. It is in the code:

                  // we go from single event to recurrence: create the recurrence and delete the single event
                  eme_db_insert_recurrence ( $event, $recurrence );
                  eme_db_delete_event ( $tmp_event );

Now the reason for this: when converting a single event into a recurrence, I don’t know if the original event could even be part of the recurrence (and exactly to which event the rsvp info should be added) You have to think of a recurrence as a “master” event that just has “single” events under it.
I could add some warning to the edit screen for this case …

[Anonymous]

Well at least that would help to avoid loosing the participants, if I had known I would have simply copied that event instead … now I manually booked them in again.

[Franky]

Or maybe I could disable the “recurrence” button if people already registered.

[Anonymous]

That would be even better and then give a hint to copy the event in case for any change os so…

[Franky]

I lost track of this one, but now implemented:
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1376411

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