Returning to this after using the revamped plugin over the last few months; it works pretty nicely now that we’ve got more recurrence options - especially the X’th day of the month, and the ability to RSVP to either the event or the series.
However, a key problem remains: archiving the last event’s content.
The use case is a recurrent event which has quite a few posts / discussion with it. This may include attached files and images. The most obvious example is a regular work meeting.
At the moment, this resulting mess needs to be sorted manually one way or another, as what recurrence does is simply change the date of the event and clear the RSVP. The manual options are:
- Turn off recurrence before / during the Event and post a new Event for next month
- Move the relevant posts to a dedicated archive post
- Auto-delete the posts on the event post (although the timing of this is awkard)
- Forget the whole recurrence thing for these types of events and just do it all manually
None of these are great unfortunately.
What I’d like to see instead
I’d like recurrence to preserve the current Event topic intact, but once it is completed the plugin would create a new Topic for the next Event.
This would keep the lovely flow, and would automatically ensure that an appropriate archive of the past event is retained - as well as giving a ‘clean’ Topic for the new event.
The price to pay (apart from increased complexity) would be that the active event would have a new URL. I could see this potentially being an issue in some cases.