Event Date field for Instances has the wrong Views filtering config operators.

That explains a lot. So if this was not producing an eventinstance entity with no bundles and just base fields, would this work?

So the approach i was wondering about is making it create a bundle of type eventinstance which might work with views properly.

Looking at the issue referenced that does not look like it will get a solution before D9 and maybe not even then.

A module that creates events, even as cleverly as this module does, is not that useful if the entity created is not usable in views.

You can list views and inherited fields but cannot make it interface with any display types beyond those in core.

Is this the best approach?

Regards

Tim

The issue here is not the lack of bundles (in fact, eventinstances have one bundle, called eventinstance) the issue here is basefields. Throughout the development of the module I've come across a number of places where core or third parties do not support basefields, or have assumed all fields are field UI fields. This is another example, if the patch for D8/9 is not forthcoming, I'll have to take a look myself at getting some sort of solution in place for recurring events, because you're right in the sense that if these things are not possible they severely reduce the functionality of this module.

For the most part basefields are completely supported by core. The difference here is a basefield which is a daterange field + views and I guess that got missed. The ideal solution is that views/daterange/core gets patched because that is the right thing to do moving forward. But I may have to intervene in the mean time.

I was pondering, that given the release date of 8.8 is in December, and since following that issue @Joachim has rolled a patch I might rebuild my prototype to 8,8 dev and apply the patch and see if that fixes things in any way.

That would make sense and possibly give us a way forward. If it works, while not proving that Joachims patch works (at least not enough for it to get into core yet) we could at least have a solution.

I will look at this over the weekend.

Great, please do let me know how it goes.

Attached is a patch to add datetime filtering, sorting, and argument support the eventinstance datetime_range basefields.

I will test and review this first.

Be done today,

Tim

Hi

I can confirm that this resolves the issue of being unable to filter by event instance datetime using the module. Filters, including grouped filters now work as expected.

It does nothing to resolve the issue with FullCalendarView though. No date data is shown on the calendar.

Something else is still missing.

Regards

Tim

Great. I'll mark this as RTBC.

The fullcalendar_view thing is a bigger fish - related to basefields and is unlikely to be solveable from this module's point of view. It will need to be a patch to fullcalendar_view I think.

This has been merged into the 8.x-1.x-dev branch. Marking this as fixed.