gc_retrip

[jswim788]

Can someone explain gc_retrip?

Configuration. Set this to false so that back-to-back events with the same name will be treated as one long event. Useful for repeating all-day events.

Compare that to this item on page 19 of the guide:

4. If there are two events with the same event name and the second event has the same start time as the end of the first ? they are viewed as one continuous event. i.e. the plugin does not ?untrigger? then ?retrigger?.

It sounds like #4 is active all the time, but the gc_retrip is a configuration.  As far as I can tell #4 works for all-day events even though I have gc_retrip set to the default of true.  Puzzling...

[Stuart]

The wording on page 19 was left over from a prior version (before gc_retrip).  When I next publish the documentation the wording will read:

4.   If there are two (or more) events with the same event name and the second event has the same start time as the previous event end time:
If gc_retrip is set to true (the default): the second event is treated as a separate event. i.e. the plugin will trigger on the start of each event in the sequence.
If gc_retrip is set to false: the second event will be treated as an extension of the first.  i.e. the plugin will only trigger on the first event in the sequence.

[jswim788]

4.   If there are two (or more) events with the same event name and the second event has the same start time as the previous event:

that means the same start time as the previous event's end time?  I'm pretty sure that is what is meant, just checking.  Thanks.

[Stuart]

Yep - fixed above.  Thx