past Events showing not working right for me on home page widget
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Thanks, I will do the same on my other site then.
I do have another question about this 'showing' function in the Events module. I may have brought this up a few years ago, but am hoping it can be adjusted fairly easily-
In my attached image, our choices for keeping Events visible for "x" amount of time after their START date are not very practical or useable in my typical site situations...
I get choices of 30 min, 45 min, 1, 2, 3 hours, 1 day, up to at most 5 days after START date of an event.
On my dulcimer musician site, most of our Events are music festivals or music camps- many of which are big events with hundreds of people attending workshops and or camping for a weekend and often a whole week. Lots of our members hold discussions in the event about accommodations, what classes to take, sharing rides, who's going, what to bring, etc etc. They also like to follow up after the event for a few days about what a good time they had. As it is now, if a festival lasts a week, it will simply DISAPPEAR 5 days into it, taking all its discussions with it... which is not good at all on my site.
My choice then comes down to having ALL events past and present showing for all time (always a disaster for my sites), OR having many of the longer events mysteriously disappear before they are even over.
Frankly, I don't need all those gazillion choices there now for 3 hrs, 4 hrs, 5 hrs,... What I really would find useful is a choice to show the event for x days after its END date... but I seem to recall this was asked for by me and another person a while back and it was not easily do-able.
Sooooo.... maybe instead I can get a LONGER span that would be sure to enable a week long festival to keeping showing on the home page events widget for up to 5 days after it ends- which in the case of a week festival, would be 12 days.
I would love to be able to have much more useful choices of something like the following instead of what's there now:
Show past events for ____ time after start date... with the choices being:
1 hour
3 hrs
8 hrs
12 hrs
1 day
2 days
4 days
6 days
9 days
12 days
15 days.
That would be something i could really use!
Is there a quick template location where I can edit these time choices myself, or does it need doing by a universal module change? Or is it too much trouble? I realize not everyone needs the same thing, but this seems to me kinda logical since so many events are longer than a day and get talked about for a few days after they are over as well.
Thanks for taking the time to consider this.
