I am trying to utilise the Calendar Plugin, but it deletes the event from the calendar after it happens despite the fact that the settings are set to -1 to disable the deletion. I’ve also tried setting the expiry to two years (17532hrs) and that also removed the event straight after it happened. Th…

Hello and welcome @Helen22 :slight_smile: I’ve been reviewing this plugin recently and I handily have a couple of calendars on my test site to check against. Could I ask which flavour of calendar you’ve gone for where this isn’t working? I have the calendar in the topic, and that one is keeping th…

If you’re referring to the setting delete expired event posts after, I think it prevents the deletion of the post, but not the display of the event, plus I think the term event here is misleading, it’s in the calendar section so I think it means more “date related thing” than “event in the rsvp-poss…

I couldn’t decide if the quirk was that it did show past events as long as they didn’t have an end time, or that it didn’t show the ones with an end time. It perhaps may be something I could include in the plugin topic rewrite if it’s a case of expectation versus actual behaviour?

:thinking: could an event be in the past if it doesn’t have an end time? [Car Chase Action GIF by Regal] I think the behavior now is expected, not showing past ones (ie with an end time in the past), but an option to be able to show all of them could be nice (but have unexpected UI side effect, I’…

[image] Benjamin_D: If you’re going for a rewrite of the topic, pleeease :sweat_smile: “event” should really be exclusively used to describe events related things, it’s very confusing when related to calendar Yup. :+1: And possibly even a tweak to some of the setting descriptions as well. …

Thanks all for your comments - [image] JammyDodger: Could I ask which flavour of calendar you’ve gone for where this isn’t working? We have the upcoming-events calendar from the hamburger menu, and the upcoming-events in the category. Neither of them are retaining the events. [image] Jam…

[image] Helen22: Where do I find this? You can create a regular calendar by adding the following to the OP of a topic: (with calendar enabled checked) [calendar] [/calendar] And then all of the following posts with a description and date will get added to it. eg: It's my birthday! [date-ra…

Thanks for your help @JammyDodger . I really appreciate it. So just to circle back and clarify the answer my initial question, there is currently no way of keeping events in the upcoming-events calendar after they’ve happened, unless I remove the end time?

No worries. Glad to help. :slight_smile: But yes, the only way to retain event-style items in the event-calendar/upcoming-events currently is to remove their end date. I wondered if another workaround to achieve something similar could be to create a ‘Past Events’ or ‘Event History’ calendar topic …

Expired events with end times are being removed from upcoming-events even with setting set to -1

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Helen22 July 29, 2022, 8:24am 12

Yes, that might work. I will look into it. Thanks!

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Expired events with end times are being removed from upcoming-events even with setting set to -1

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