Import to Setup events

Jason_lee 2016-12-15 06:33:03 UTC #1

it would be very helpful to be able to import event times from a CSV so that you wouldn't have to manually add specific dates for one time event show times.

Currently we copy the previous week's replay event for our non-live replays and just use the weekly time when we setup each time. And as long as we remember to go in and turn off the previous weeks' event all is ok. But if we could quickly enter the times and dates into excel and then import a CSV to add the times this could be way faster.

Would this help anyone else?

Tim_Hamm 2016-12-19 16:55:12 UTC #2

That would be cool. Before that though I would like to see start/end dates for event recurrences so we can setup more than one week at a time with the same recurrence but it would switch to whatever recurrence is scheduled for that week.

That way you wouldn't see the wrong title when you scroll through the schedule.

Jason_lee 2016-12-19 18:19:04 UTC #3

Tim i totally agree a start / stop recurrence date would be huge.

If we had that.. we wouldn't really need the ability to import events as much ... the problem i'm trying to solve is
1. Cut down on the time my volunteers spend setting up events
2. not having to turn weekly recurring events on and off each week so they don't show up after they've occurred.

and while we are dreaming i'd love to be able to control what events show up in the schedule. Sometimes i really need more than 7 days to show up because i want people to know about specific things as they attend an event.