I have an Event Node Type containing a Date field which may contain a single date (start or start and end values), or a Repeated Date giving multiple values, typically weekly repeats in my case.

When setting the display options for this field in the Manage Display page, under "Multiple Values" I set "show 8 values" and "starting from now", since I don't need to give the history of past repetitions.

HOWEVER these conditions are also applied to date fields containing a single, non-repeated, value. The result is that when displaying a single event in the past there is no date display at all, which is not what is wanted.

(Thinking about it, if I had a Repeated date whose last repetition was also in the past I would get the same effect, which is undesirable, but I suspect in practice less of a problem and probably more difficult to fix.)

Thank you.

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calefilm’s picture

calefilm commented

Not sure if my set up will do you any good but I'd like to at least outline what I have done as a means to reference a similar issue I had today.

I have an Event Page where each event is listed.

Under each title, I have "Next event date... Month, day, Year"

So I wanted each event posting to list the next two events. So I go to my view this way:

Under fields, add Content Date:
Date and Time formatter
Multiple Values: Show 2 values
Starting from: now
Ending: leave blank

Select "Display all values in same row"
Display 2 values
starting from: leave blank

If I want to apply a filter (content date), I may want to limit the search to only nodes creating using an in-between start and end date.. but that wasn't as important in my case as setting the field content settings correctly.

This only works so long as your users are inputting the dates (and rearranging them) in order as they should when they create the node.

michael_lessard_micles.biz’s picture

michael_lessard_micles.biz commented
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I have the exact same issue.

When configuring how my content type is presented, under the label Multiples Values, I set the beginning to now (also tested with current day). I was happy initially to see this allows to only show the next recurring/repeating dates.

But ALL dates then utterly disappear from summary and body ! Not good. So I had to revert.

Argh. Showing the first past starting dates is not very useful :P Worst, in summary, I have to show at least one of the repeating dates, namely the first ancient one, which can only confuse my media viewers.

will kirchheimer’s picture

will kirchheimer
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commented

Just wondering if you came up with a solution for this?