I had occasion to edit an existing event.
The date at which the event was ending, May 21, was incorrect - it should have been May 31. I opened the event for editing and afte making the changes I looked at the month view only to see that the days from now (the 17th) until the 21st had two entries for this event ... I eventually had to delete them and re-enter from the start. Thats when I noticed the weirdness ...
When you hover over the event there is a popup window showing the contents of the description. The first line in the box is the event span ... the start date/time and the end date/time. In both the popup and the event detail my event says it goes from 10 AM to 4PM on the same day. But the event actually is a recurring event that takes place over many weeks. Each day it appears in reports that it is the only day the event is happening on.
Another event in the same month I'm viewing happens over 3 days and its detail says it goes from May 17 to May 19 ... so what's different?
The event that reports single days at a time is a Recurring event and the one that reports multiple days is a one time event ... how strange.
My preference would be to have the recurring event report the complete span of dates and NOT just one day at a time.
So how do I get it to do that?
I tried the simple fix of changing the end date (at the top of the event edit page) to May 31st. The bottom section has it as a weekly recurring event that ends on May 31st.
This 'fixed' my start/end display requirement but what also happens is the event also appears on every day of the period. But the host location, an art gallery, is not open on Sunday and Monday.
When the event's end date was the same as it's start date it only appeared on the days specified in the pattern in the 'weekly event' part of the recurring events section.
So I wonder how to fix this ... is this behaviour by design? or is this one more thing to be addressed?
For the moment I'm putting a BOLD message in the description stating the actual span of the event but it's just a workaround. I worry that a cursory glance at the popup or detail of the event will result in the visitor having a mistaken idea of when it's over. Not to mention it makes us look rather inept ... :(
I saw the 'hamburger day' post that talked about event exclusion patterns and I'd put in my 2 cents for an exclusion pattern on one time events that span multiple days. Maybe two: one for days of the week or an alternative with a list of actual dates. I'm not averse to filling in a list if my event displays unambiguously correct.
Or, and this might be more complicated, if I could fill in the operating days of the location the event takes place in and have that act as a final filter for days that the event appears in, in the calendar and lists.