By rascheri on

I have a newly installed (not upgraded) Drupal 7.x website.

I'm looking for an example of how to create a custom content type called "Group Event" that uses Repeating Dates such that the repeating dates will show up in the Calendar Views (Block, Calendar, Month, Week, etc...).

I've downloaded and installed the latest development versions for the Calendar, Views, CTools, and Date modules.

I've created a content type called "Group Event" and added the necessary start date, end date and allowed for repeating dates.

I've modified the Calendar Views so that I can get the first event to appear on the first month. But I don't see any of the events appear on subsequent months...like the repeating date is not working correctly.

Is anyone else having problems with this?

BTW. I have a few years of experience using Drupal 6.x with the Events, Date, Calendar, CCK and Views modules. My 6.x version has been running just fine for a couple of years.

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dellis’s picture

dellis commented

I figure that I must be missing something basic, since I haven't seen many people with this same issue. I can only get the event's first date to show up in the calendar view (and yes it is showing the start date--not the updated/created date).

None of the repeat rules seem to display--the only way to get it to list under multiple days is to have a start and end date, but this isn't what I need.

borazslo’s picture

borazslo commented

same problem :(

dannygb’s picture

dannygb commented

Yeah, same issue here

plong0’s picture

plong0 commented

I was having this problem as well, where my repeating events were showing the same result multiple times on the start date and not on any of the repeating days.

I looked at the out-of-box Calendar Views to see what was different, and what worked for me was this...

On the view configuration page, under Advanced column > Contextual Filters, there should be one for the date. On the settings for the Contextual Filter, changing the Add multiple value identifier to "yes" solved the problem for me.

ilbeppe’s picture

ilbeppe commented

This solution don't work for me.
Any other possible solution?

DrupalHack’s picture

DrupalHack commented

Thank you plong0, that worked perfectly.

To clarify, go to Contextual Filters and click add. In the next overlay, you'll see your standard "search" text field, and "filter" dropdown list for sorting through field/entity/whatever types. Open the Filter dropdown list and select Date. Then from the options you're left with, select Date: Date (node).

Once this filter is added, look at its settings and set the Add multiple value identifier to yes.

In this instance I'm configuring a view set as an unordered list of fields from an event type. It's important that in the options of the date field, that the field under the Multiple Values heading be left blank so that all values show. If you set it to a specific value, it will only repeat those first values specified over and over again.

Thanks again plong0

stijnbousard’s picture

stijnbousard commented

Worked for me! Thanks!

artwick’s picture

artwick commented

My problem and workflow is the same as rascheris. I tried plong0s solution without success. After loosing a few hours I found a solution which worked when I setup the whole thing on a new drupal installation.

My problem was not the view, but the date field.

I went to the content type "MyEvent" and set up a new field. ( Home » Administration » Structure » Content types » MyEvent » Manage fields).

When you create the field with type "Date" you can set the "Repeating Date" on two occasions:

1.) in the first screen (to set it globally for this field) OR
2.) in the second screen where you set it for the content type

The first option works just fine, the second fails (or I'm to stupid to make it work).

My solution was:
I set up a dedicated date field for this content type and set it to "Repeating date" immediatly and globally.

Modules used:
Calendar 7.x-3.4, Date 7.x-2.6, Date Repeat API 7.x-2.6, Date Repeat Field 7.x-2.6

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rickdrup commented

Setup as above and also using Event Calendar 7.x-1.0 and had same issue but resolved by deleting and adding the date field as above.

melian’s picture

melian commented

As above

jlyon’s picture

jlyon commented

This also fixed this issue for me. Thanks!

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esmitex’s picture

esmitex commented

didn't fix my issue

I must have done something else wrong

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esmitex commented

I have the same issue, it only shows the first date and not the recurring dates of the event in the calendar. I tried to create a new date repeating field for the view. I set "multiple values" of the date to be displayed. I cannot display these dates in the calendar view