I am not a novice, and I have spent quite a while reading through documentation and posts, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to set a repeating date.

Using Date 6.x-2.0-rc1, I have enable the Date Repeat API module. I have created a content type called event and configured it's date field. Everything works great except that there is no option for setting up the repeating dates. In the date fields configuration there is an option to show the Repeat Display as Expanded or Collapsed. That's great but I never see the Repeat Display.

From what I have read it appears there should be an option there but I am not seeing it. Please help, thank you~

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karens commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I'm starting some documentation for that at http://drupal.org/node/295239. It's in the 'Number of values' options.

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3cwebdev commented

Perfect! Thank you so much - I can't believe it was right in front of me~

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3cwebdev commented
Title: Can not find the date repeat feature » Another question relating to the repeat functionality

Creating repeating nodes is working great but is there a way to show only the current date when you view a full node that has a repeating date value?

Example: using the date/calendar functionality to display the fields of a date-node, when I click on the link to view the node it display all of the dates. My node has hundreds of repeated dates and the the user would have to scroll way down to see the actual body content.

I found how to show only one value in the through views, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it in the node itself.

Any ideas?

Here's a link to an example node: http://team-hope.org/new/events/street-evangelism

Thanks for any help :)

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karens commented
Title: Another question relating to the repeat functionality » Show/Hide Repeating Dates
Version: 6.x-2.0-rc1 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Category: support » task
Status: Fixed » Active

This was a task I meant to do, better get it marked so I don't forget. I'm showing all those dates initially so it's easy to see if the repeats are computing correctly. We still have a couple issues where people report they are not, but they work for me and apparently for many others, so it's probably time to move or only show it on demand.

I'm thinking about adding a tab for the repeating dates -- it's a way you can see them without them hiding relevant info.

karens’s picture

karens commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I've committed a fix for this to both the D5 and D6 versions. Now the repeating date node displays only the start date and the repeat rule, and the list of repeating date values is moved to a separate 'Repeats' tab.

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3cwebdev commented

Awesome! Thank you :)

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stefan_seefeld commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Karen, since I upgraded the date module I'm I have been seeing a 'Repeats' tab in *all* my nodes, even those which don't have any date field. Did a bug slip into this fix ? (In fact, I was googling for 'Repeats' to find what the origin of this 'new' feature might be, and only that way learned about your change in rc2...)

Thanks,
Stefan

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karens commented

Yes, I just saw that too. Needs a patch.

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karens commented
Status: Active » Fixed

OK, fixed now. You'll need a menu rebuild to get the tab to start working right.

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thelocaltourist commented

How do I rebuild the menu?

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amccoy commented

Can you please explain "menu rebuild"? I installed Calendar 6.x-2.0-rc1 and Date date-6.x-2.0-rc2 ... is the patch included in these versions? If not could you advise a link to download patch? Thx!

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karens commented

There's a function called menu_rebuild() you can run from a php box (if you use the Devel module), but you can also do it by visiting the main admin page. That should cause your new tabs to show up where they belong (tabs are a part of the menu system).

The patch is not in those rc versions, you need the very latest -dev tarball for both Date and Calendar (you'll see links to them on the project home pages).

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amccoy commented

Thanks - all seems to be working well after updating the mods.

New question ...
How should one configure the calendar block to display links to an event with repeating dates. That is, I've created a new node type and assigned it a datetime field with repeating values. I created a test event with today as start date and told to repeat every day for 1 week except Thursday. All the repeat data shows when I look at the node page but the calendar block view only shows a hyperlink to today's date. I would like to show all the days where this event repeats as active links on the calendar block. Any tips on what settings I need to change?

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karens commented

You'd have to go in and override the theme to do that. But all the repeats link to the same node, so what would be the point anyway?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.