Hide_repeats widget setting hiding all instances of event

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Some of our groups have long running repeating events. To prevent these types of events from completely taking over calendars, we use the hide_repeats option in some of our widgets. This doesn’t seem to be working as expected though. According to the hide_repeats documentation, “Setting hide_repeats=true instead only shows one event in each case: the next daily instance of a multi-day event, and the next instance of a repeating series.”

When using this setting, no repeating events show up at all though.
Example link with the setting set to false: https://events.ucalgary.ca/live/widget/151/hide_repeats/false
Example link with the setting set to true: https://events.ucalgary.ca/live/widget/151/hide_repeats/true

The widget in the above examples is filtered to a specific group with a specific tag. With hide_repeats set to false there are many instances of repeating events shown. With hide_repeats set to true there are no instances of these events shown.

Is this a bug with the hide_repeats option or are we using it improperly?

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A brief note in passing that I believe I’m also seeing this for Beloit College’s calendar.

Nick

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A less brief note to give an example on our website calendar (2.24.0):

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Hi folks,

Thanks for raising this – I believe this is a known issue that is fixed in LW3+. It occurs when hide_repeats=true and there’s a past instance of your repeating event series, which erroneously flags to not show future ones.

In the meantime before your next upgrade, we could try patching the fix directly, I believe it’s pretty self-contained. We’re not able to SFTP into LiveWhale sites from a Forum threads, but feel free to reach out via the Request Help Form and we’ll see what we can do. Thanks!

Karl

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Thanks Karl, I’ve reached out via the request help form and marked this thread as solved