[Plugin: Events Manager] Dates must have correct formatting. Please use the date picker provided.

  • Resolved davidbann

    (@davidbann)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there,

    I have just installed the events-manager plugin and when trying to create my first event, there is no date picker for the stat date of the event. I manually enter a date but when I save I get the error:

    “Missing fields: event_start_date. Dates must have correct formatting. Please use the date picker provided.”

    I have tried in the following formats, but none work:
    ccyy/mm/dd
    ccyy-mm-dd
    dd/mm/ccyy
    dd-mm-ccyy
    mm/dd/ccyy
    mm-dd-ccyy

    Please let me know how I can enter the correct date format, and why the date picker is not showing?

    Thanks

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/

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  • agelonwl

    (@angelonwl)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    hi,

    maybe a conflict between your other plugins or theme! on plugins please try deactivating temporarily and or changing to default WordPress theme.

    Thread Starter davidbann

    (@davidbann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the response!

    I tried what you suggested – I deactivated ALL plugins except Event Manager, and I switched to the default WP theme, but still no luck – There is still no date picker when trying to create a new event.

    I don’t really see how the theme could affect it anyway, since I am only trying to create an event through the admin panel which does not take on the site theme.

    Any other ideas?

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    you have a javascript error if the calendar doesn’t show. it’s most probably caused by one of the extra scripts you installed to wp, be it a theme, plugin or mu-plugin.

    there was a bug where translated languages didn’t show datepickers when editing events, but that should be fixed now.

    Thread Starter davidbann

    (@davidbann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    well as I mentioned, I tried to disable all plugins and change to the default theme – surely that means that it’s not theme or plugin related? Or would disabled plugins still affect event manager?

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    normally no, but i have seen plugins do wierd stuff before even when disabled (e.g. buddypress back in times of beta/rc)

    another way is to check what’s happening is seeing your browser debugger for errors

    Thread Starter davidbann

    (@davidbann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Ok I will try that out – thanks

    Josh Maxwell

    (@hornetok)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Just installed it, too, and having the same issue. I’m not sure yet compared to the old versions, but the most recent version is missing any sort of input fields in events-manager\admin\em-event.php on line 320. Goes straight into the recurrence dates.

    I’m about to check the old version to see if it’s got this stuff.

    Josh Maxwell

    (@hornetok)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I’m not sure what fixed it but it’s working now. Here’s the order of things I did:

    1. Overwrote ver. 4.12 w/ ver. 4.11 – code looked the same so…
    2. Overwrote ver. 4.11 w/ ver. 4.12
    3. Disabled ALL plugins (double check)
    4. Updated WP from 3.2 to latest (3.2.1)
    5. Logged off/back in – works!
    6. Enabled plugins (dreadfully) – still works!

    I see now that the reason that file had two h3 tags (Event Date & Recurrence Dates): so that it can dynamically display one of them.

    Good luck with your plugin!

    Thread Starter davidbann

    (@davidbann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks Josh,

    I tried what you suggested – deactivated and deleted the EM plugin, upgraded to 3.2.1 and then reinstalled the plugin. Now it works perfectly

    Many thanks

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