Smart Date Recurring Events as Separate Events in Search API

Created on 8 August 2024, 5 months ago

Currently, indexing recurring events in Search API creates only one entry for the event. This presents UX problems when searching for events. The primary issue is that on a listing of events if the individual instances in a series of recurring events are not separated, they won't show up in the list of events where a searcher would expect. Instead of the individual instances being interspersed in the chronological order of events, the event would only show up once.

Another issue occurs during filtering when filtering for events the end by certain date. For example, if an event series begins on August 1st and recurs daily for one week, ending on August 8th, if someone searches events ending before August 8th they would not receive the expected results. Because the event series contains some events that end before August 8th, they would expect to see those instances of the event.

For content using the date recur module, this module ( https://www.drupal.org/project/date_recur_search_api → ) has addressed this issue. It would be great to have this feature for Smart Date recurring events. Taking that module as inspiration and guidance I have worked on a solution for Smart Date.

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Version

4.1

Component

Smart Date Recur

Created by

lelkneralfaro

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Issue created by @lelkneralfaro
Comment 5 months ago →
lelkneralfaro
The code in the issue fork only works with code I have added in this sandbox module: https://git.drupalcode.org/sandbox/lelkneralfaro-3467019

So, if Smart Date maintainers are willing for this feature to be fully developed in smart date I would move what I have begun on in the sandbox module into this issue fork.

As far as I can tell for this feature to be implemented as an independent module there would have to be these additions to Smart Date which is why I opened this issue fork.
Comment 2 months ago →
🇺🇸United States jonraedeke
This feature would be extremely useful! Thank you for this work! The fork and sandbox module work really well.

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