Ability to add an end time or duration to a Meetup
a weekend or week long event only shows up on the calendar on a single day
dona
shared this idea
The ability to add end times to Meetups is now available!
133 comments
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Tom
commented
Check out what outlook or iphone do for scheduling events, and support that.
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Tom
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It's a start, but it doesn't handle the common case of the event is 9-5 for a week. If I'm understanding correctly, this would show the event as starting at 9 on monday, and ending at 5pm on Friday.
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RJ
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It would be nice to have the end time be listed below the start time on the top of all event listings. This includes in their brief summaries on a Meetup group's home page.
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Steven C.
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Thank you! It looks like you've also rectified the issue Donna raised, too, at least it reads well for our two hour and two day events.
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Tammy commented
Good job.
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Donna
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Like the idea for end time... but you need to put it on the same line as the date & bold it
or
under the date (all ready there), but bold it. And keep the beginning time & end time on same line.
Right now, the beginning time is on top of the end time.People are already asking what time does the event start. They can see it.
Thanks! :)
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Ron Rogers
commented
Thanks for implementing this!
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Lew
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Thank you. Glad it made it to production!
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Vicki R commented
This will be a great addition. We are a moms group and members are always wondering how long we will be at a meet up.
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Dani
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this is a much needed function
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Bansi
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Yet another vote for this -- abominable that an all day event shows up as 2 hours when imported to my iCalendar!!! I need to have accurate scheduling!!! (Kudos on the auto importing feature though...)
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dona
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yeah, thank you for working on this!!
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Kelly
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This is not a difficult function to add. What is taking so long? This used to be a feature despite what Greg Whalin posted. I remember being able to put an end time on events. It's not good enough to simply add an end time in the description of the event if you use the sync feature with Google calendar. You can't edit the event in Google calendar to make it reflect the actual amount of time that you will be participating. Get your heads out of your a$$es and get this fixed. This feature never should have been taken away to begin with. Stop fiddling around and making meaningless changes that nobody wants or likes and start working on requests that come from organizers of meetups who actually pay to run our groups.
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Steph
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So glad to see this great idea is being planned but it looks like it was posted 2 years ago so I hope this feature is added soon! Totally need this feature!
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tat2duck commented
Yes, also please add time slots for breaks. I need to know when I can go out and have my cigarette. And there should be a check box if there will be pee breaks. Actually I would like to know how many breaks are available during the meet up. Perhaps a drop down list that allows the organizer to select the number of breaks that will be provided would be very useful. A simple formula can be used to calculate the length of the meet up based on start and end time minus all allotted breaks. It simple to implement and highly desirable. Phew! Now I need a lobotomy break!
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dee
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this is unnecessary if people would just take responsibility for Learning about the Meetup they are joining. "Overlapping times" - sister, you are overbooking yourself, as well as trusting that Hosts fill out the entire (proposed) fields and are accurate as to length things run.
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Wendy
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Yes. Right now ending times have to be embedded in the text description of the event.
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Melanie
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I love this idea. In fact, I'd like to take it a step farther. I think it should be required to post at least a tentative or estimated end time. That way, a user can see whether a meetup overlaps another one s/he would like to attend (or, for that matter, if it conflicts with personal plans outside Meetup).
Also, if there's an end time, maybe it would transfer to Outlook more accurately. For me, it always defaults to an hour, and the meetups I've attended are usually more like 3-4 hours.
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Ross Graham commented
Yes, definitely END TIME is necessary. I publish my event calendars on Google Calendar and without the end time all of our events look like they're only 2 hours long. That's horribly inaccurate.
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R Knapp
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Not only that, it assumes all durations are 2 hours. I link my Meetup calendar to Google and my iPhone, and all meetups show with a 2-hour duration. Almost all events I attend have durations different than 2 hours.
