The idea of the multi-day sheet type was that you have some kind of event that spans multiple days, but you need different tasks/items on each day (otherwise, you would use a recurring event if the tasks/items are identical for each day). So, for multi-day events, you specify the single day that each task/item is needed. When the sheet is displayed, the start and end dates shown there are calculated by the plugin based on the earliest and latest dates you enter for any tasks/items.
Hope that makes more sense now.
If you have the same tasks and items on each day of your event, meaning “adult” and “youth” identical tasks on each day, then it might be better to set that up as a recurring event in which you only have to define each task one time, and then you select the multiple event days from a multi-date selector.
Which brings up another question, can you change a multi day to a recurring. That might fix my problem completely.
Well I just noticed another problem where this might now work for me now. I need a sign up for multi days were the sign up is done once for multiple days. An example is a camping trip that is three days long with only two tasks being Adult and Youth. They would sign up as an Adult or Youth for the three days. So the start end time is actually full days.
Like a multi day calendar entry in google calendar or outlook.
Once a sheet type is set, you can’t change it, because the way the data for the tasks is set & saved in the database depends on the type of sheet, and the data would be formatted wrong if you change sheet types after some data has already been entered. So, you would need to delete and recreate the sheet, or do a lot of direct database manipulation to makes things work.
For the second question, just make it clear in the sheet description or the individual task/item name that it is a 3 day task, starting on the specified date.
This plugin started out as another plugin which I modified for our own PTA needs. The database structure was already set when I created my fork of the original plugin, although I eventually added some additional fields. It currently doesn’t lend itself to Google style calendar events. If I was starting all over again and creating my own plugin from scratch for this purpose, I would do it differently (knowing what I know now). However, it worked great as it was for our PTA needs, so no need to rewrite it. It’s also completely free and open source, so any body else is free to do what they want with the code. We have since moved on to another school, and so I’m not currently working with it for any sites that I manage. I will fix any bugs that creep up with new versions of WordPress, but have no plans to add new features or to rewrite the database structure.
