Hi all!

Is there a way of having nested events? I am working on a conference schedule: my events are speeches, but they are organized in sessions which should appear in the calendar, including the speeches. Something like the following, for 2 parallel sessions:

  • Session 1: Topic 1 (room = A), from 11:00 to 12:30
    • Speech 1.1: Title 1 (room = A), from 11:00 to 11:30
    • Speech 1.2: Title 2 (room = A), from 11:30 to 12:00
    • Speech 1.3: Title 3 (room = A), from 12:00 to 12:30
  • Session 2: Topic 2 (room = B), from 11:00 to 12:30
    • Speech 2.1: Title 4 (room = B), from 11:00 to 11:30
    • Speech 2.2: Title 6 (room = B), from 11:30 to 12:00
    • Speech 2.3: Title 5 (room = B), from 12:00 to 12:30

Sometimes, speeches have no timing inside a session, but they still have to appear nested in this session.

I tried to work with taxonomy for the sessions, and I can get the details of a session that way. But I can't handle the display in the calendar (taxonomy terms are not events).

Any idea? Would it be difficult to allow nested events?

Thanks!

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ulysse68 CreditAttribution: ulysse68 commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

After some more research: if one of the objectives is to export the events in an iCalendar format, forget nested events.

The "VEVENT" calendar component cannot be nested within another calendar component. (RFC 2445, p. 53)

So maybe it is not a good idea to integrate nested events in this module. I'll try other ways to solve my problem -- if somebody has an idea, don't hesitate to post!