Events with no start or end time?

[Anonymous]

I’d like to have some all day events that have no start or end time. Is it possible to hide the time field for those events in lists?

[Franky]

In lists? As in [events_list]? Nope. Either the start time/end time is shown, or it is not.

I could add some logic to detect a start/end date of “00:00”, but if you add your own seperators between start/end time, it would still show on the event list.

What you can do: use a custom attribute for this, that defaults to the time format. E.g. use this in the default event list format:

#_ATT{allday}{#H:#i – #@H:#@i}

Now for every event, you’ll have the attribute “allday” at your disposal when editing the event: if you fill something in (e.g. “All day event”) that text will be shown, otherwise the default (in this case: “#H:#i – #@H:#@i”

I hope this is clear somehow.

[Anonymous]

I tried this and it works great for the event list and single event, but not for the large calendar. I wanted the event name with the starting time to show on the calendar. That worked, but when I changed it to use the same #_ATT code as events list #_ATT{TIME}{(#g:#i #a – #@g:#@i #@a)} it just shows the formatted time.

For now I’ve removed the time from the calendar, but it would be nice to put it back.

Thanks for a VERY useful plugin.

[Anonymous]

Oh – and I’m trying it in the RSS feed too, but haven’t seen if that works yet.

[Franky]

The calendar didn’t support attributes yet, this has been implemented for the next release.

[Anonymous]

I’d like to have a similar ability, which is if the start/end time is blank then don’t display it. It appears if the field is left blank, than a default time is entered anyway.

I like your suggestion to hide the field if it’s 00:00, but that could also be a valid time?

[Franky]

In the next release you have conditional tags that can be used to make decisions based on empty/value of an attribute.

See http://www.e-dynamics.be/bbpress/topic.php?id=416 for how it will be done.

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