Create and remove multiple repeat exceptions (without needing to save node for every exception)

I am having the exact same problem as well. I can't find an area that has mutiple exceptions. Have you found a solution yet?

Just found a solution... It is kind of stupid. Just click on Save and then scroll back down to the exceptions section and add the next date, and click save. (wash and repeat as many times as necessairy)

Marked #641600: Multiple date excepts & #320548: Add 'Add more' javascript button to exception dates as duplicates of this issue.

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This is definitely an important feature request.

I built a site for an elementary school that requires frequent updates to the calendar with various events. There does not seem to be an easy way to exclude weekends for month-long happenings. To have to refresh the page on each exception entry just aggravates the situation for the poor staff.

Multiple Exception fields, or, an "Exclude Weekends" option should be a basic feature.

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I agree, but for excluding weekends can you just use the advanced settings and choose "every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday?"

The current solution (workaround?) is not friendly to users and unnecessarily costs performance.

A "remove exception" link for each existing exception and a single "add new exception" link is needed within the "Except" group fields.

@'aww': An "Exclude Weekends" is really not desirable imo, since definitely not only weekends could be exceptions.

BTW: I marked http://drupal.org/node/333619 as being a duplicate.

I think the issue can be solved in lines 164+ within the file 'date\date_repeat\date_repeat_form.inc':

  $element['exceptions'] = array(
    '#type' => 'fieldset',
    '#collapsible' => TRUE,
    '#collapsed' => empty($exceptions) ? TRUE : FALSE,
    '#title' => t('Except'),
    '#description' => t('Dates to omit from the list of repeating dates.'),
    '#prefix' => '<div class="date-repeat">',
    '#suffix' => '</div>',
    );
  $max = !empty($exceptions) ? sizeof($exceptions) : 0;
  for ($i = 0; $i <= $max; $i++) {
    $EXCEPT = '';
    if (!empty($exceptions[$i]['datetime'])) {
      $EXCEPT = $exceptions[$i]['datetime'];
    }
    $element['exceptions']['EXDATE'][$i] = array(
      '#tree' => TRUE,
      'datetime' => array(
        '#type' => $element['#date_repeat_widget'],
        '#default_value' => $EXCEPT,
        '#date_timezone' => !empty($element['#date_timezone']) ? $element['#date_timezone'] : date_default_timezone_name(),
        '#date_format' => !empty($element['#date_format']) ? $element['#date_format'] : 'Y-m-d',
        '#date_text_parts'  => !empty($element['#date_text_parts']) ? $element['#date_text_parts'] : array(),
        '#date_year_range'  => !empty($element['#date_year_range']) ? $element['#date_year_range'] : '-3:+3',
        '#date_label_position' => !empty($element['#date_label_position']) ? $element['#date_label_position'] : 'within',
        ),
      'tz' => array('#type' => 'hidden', '#value' => $element['#date_timezone']),
      'all_day' => array('#type' => 'hidden', '#value' => 1),
      'granularity' => array('#type' => 'hidden', '#value' => serialize(array('year', 'month', 'day'))),
      );
  }

A workaround may be to change the multilingual (!) help text of the "Except" field from:

Dates to omit from the list of repeating dates.

to:

Dates to omit from the list of repeating dates. To add additional exceptions to repeating dates, save and then again edit the node.

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Would be great to see a global exception list as well - for instance all events site wide do not recur on major holidays unless specifically set. Subscribe!

@DaniHobbs: please submit a separate issue for your feature request (in post #21).

The fix is to add AHAH 'add more' handing to this widget, which I haven't had time to do. If anyone wants to make a patch that would be great.

Hello KarenS,

This was an itch that the good people at AllPlayers.com needed to scratch.

Here is the patch I wrote that adds an AHAH "Add more" button to the exceptions. Please let me know if this works for you.

Thanks,

Travis Tidwell

Bless you!!! I will take a look.

This is great! I tweaked it up to work for both exceptions and additions and committed it. Thanks!

Nice! I just took a look and the additions piece is great!

I am glad I could help out.

Thank you so much for your module.

Travis Tidwell.