bhstp Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Site URL: http://www.blackhartstp.com I maintain our bar's calendar for shows and events and there are several features that are absolutely maddening. Many of our events are weekly, but in order to put each individual event up you must: duplicate the event, delete (copy) which has been added to the title, and then at times you have go in and manually adjust the individual event webpage because it just keeps adding digits to the html every time you duplicate. All of this means that it takes probably an hour or two each month rather than just setting the calendar for the year in one sitting. misssquarebuilder, JaneKD, ShannonKropfCreative and 2 others 5 Link to comment
tlcheung Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I'm having a similar problem. We have a several weekly free events that repeat. Like Monday 1 to 4 drawing. I'd like to to how up every Monday without having to manually add it to every week. Is there a way to do that? xjennix937 1 Link to comment
paul2009 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) As mentioned in point 6 of the forum guidelines, Squarespace don't routinely monitor this forum for feature requests or customer questions. If this feature is important to your business, I recommend you contact Squarespace Customer Care to log your concern about this missing feature. The more they hear from customers who are affected by missing features, the easier it is for them to prioritise them. Edited February 18 by paul2009 InelegantlyWaisted, mkersyshull and MTM_emi 1 2 About Paul: Circle Community Leader who values honesty, transparency, respect and appreciation ♥.Work: Squarespace Expert and founder of SF Digital, a company dedicated to improving Squarespace websites by building the features Squarespace didn't include™. See our range of extensions for Squarespace to improve your store.Content: Links in my posts may refer to SF Digital products or may be affiliate links. Link to comment
SRW Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Can you say more about duplicating? I can see the "duplicate page," obviously, and trying to debug it. For recurring events, is it best to set them for a day early? Also, when multiple events appear, no thumbnails appear and even trying to make the most important event featured does not make the thumbnail appear. At a loss and any help appreciated. Link to comment
CopperMuse Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I've been frustrated by not being able to do recurring events in SquareSpace for a few years now. I finally decided to give up on the SquareSpace events calendar tool and instead embed a calendar from another website. I ended up embedding our business' Google Calendar which doesn't create the most elegant solution, but it is free. There are other sites like Tockify, CalendarWiz, Time.ly, Loxi.io, etc. that have free and paid plans for more elegant solutions. JaneKD and xjennix937 2 Link to comment
AnnVivo Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 SOOOOO Frustrating not to be able to put the repeating weekly schedule on the calendar without duplicating EACH item and then editing it for the next week. Come on folks. krista.jewett, dnmddy, JaneKD and 5 others 8 Link to comment
BKP Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Agree it is very frustrating being boy able to create recurring event. It is such a basic scheduling feature. xjennix937, Christinee, ClaytonKing and 1 other 4 Link to comment
zuzahicks Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 I'm not really sure what to tell my client at this point. I convinced her to go with Squarespace, having no idea she would need to upload the recurring events manually each time...Does anyone recommend a third party site that can be embedded instead? xjennix937 1 Link to comment
Jackie123 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Would also love a bulk import feature for events. I have mentioned this before but not sure if thats on the feature roadmap anytime soon. Entering each manually is absolutely painful Christinee and xjennix937 2 Link to comment
MaryPhilip_ Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I haven't done this but could you use Eventbrite's recurring feature and embed it into the website? On 11/9/2020 at 9:23 PM, zuzahicks said: I'm not really sure what to tell my client at this point. I convinced her to go with Squarespace, having no idea she would need to upload the recurring events manually each time...Does anyone recommend a third party site that can be embedded instead? ClaytonKing 1 Hi 👋 I'm a Squarespace Expert Member, Circle Member & only Squarespace Authorised Trainer in Scotland. Hit the little 👍 if I've helped. Need help? Get in touch. Link to comment
JennySquare Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 (edited) This is ridiculous. Not only are you not able to recreate a recurring event, when you do duplicate an event and change the date so that you can create an recurring event manually, it resets the time. And the UI for the time setting is ridiculous. Who thought of a drag? Why not a drag AND an input field, so I can type in the time and not waste my time EXACTING the drag? Please fix this. Edited November 17, 2021 by JennySquare markoshman 1 Link to comment
Alexander128 Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 To be honest, I think it is utter crap that supposedly "it can't be done" when practically every other host can. This is an essential feature for many businesses and organizations. This is one of the main reasons why I am looking into switching from SquareSpace. jwh131 1 Link to comment
pezza3434 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Apologies for posting on an old topic, but it seems that this question gets a response every few months with no solution. I think I may have an answer you will like. I'm the founder of eventcalendarapp.com. Our software lets you build an Event Calendar and then add it to your Squarespace page. We offer all softs of features, but most importantly we have full support for recurring events. Everything you could ever think off: Every day Every week (and only on certain days) Every 3rd day of the month Complete custom dates of your choose Honestly, literally anything. I appreciate the downsides of using external software rather than something that is baked into Squarespace however the beauty of this is that we can do things that Squarespace can’t. If you are interested, here is an example of a Squarespace site using Event Calendar App and recurring events: https://www.westendchurch.org/calendar Thanks everyone. creedon, jwh131 and LoisSeco 3 Link to comment
Inscape Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 On 1/6/2022 at 4:05 AM, pezza3434 said: Our software lets you build an Event Calendar and then add it to your Squarespace page. I checked out your app and it looks fantastic. But even your cheapest plan is quite expensive... more expensive than Squarespace's Business Plan. So the calendar would cost my clients more than their whole website. I work with small businesses and nonprofits (such as churches and schools) who are not making money off their events. I want to suggest that your app develop a "non-ticketing" plan that is actually affordable for those who are not selling tickets... comparable to Loxi.io which is $8/month. Thanks for sharing! paul2009 1 Link to comment
SavoryAlaska Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 I may as well go ahead and pile on. It is nuts that we can't create recurring calendar events and have everything about each event repeat except for the date and URL. I do hundreds of events each year. Really don't want to manually enter them all... Even the duplicate event option is cumbersome. It's hard to imagine that the techies at Squarespace can't figure this out. Link to comment
GarryFerrier Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Yep...same boat. This just isn't good enough. As someone has already mentioned - I convinced my client to go for a Squarespace site and now feeling like an idiot as I'm only now realising that they will have to input their multiple weekly events manually. They were promised a slick looking calendar included in the cost of the website and now it turns out it will be huge burden to them. If adding this feature means Squarespace needs to 'replace Events entirely with something else'....then that just needs to happen. It's surely the most basic function you could hope to achieve with a calendar widget. Please fix. Link to comment
Figrin Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Also wish this was a possibility for our club's website. A basic and essential community organizing feature that shouldn't require this much labor to integrate into a website. Link to comment
misssquarebuilder Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I have to agree that this is needed. When you choose the events template, there are a lot of great features, but setting the date is so limited. Why do I have to jump a month at a time to get to the right month? Why can't I just pick the month, day, and year? If the event will be recurring or have multiple shifts, I should be able to add those, so it will appear at every day, without having redundant work of copying the event for every instance of its occurrence. Link to comment
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