Event Custom Fields: When Event Type is hidden on Event Creation, it's not working.
By Andy on Thursday, 25 September 2014
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Thanks to the super flexibility of Event Custom Fields I'm making my Event Create form as short and simple as possible for users...

...One thing I've done is set the EVENT TYPE (Open/Closed/Invite Only) to HIDDEN during CREATION (as per the back-end options allowing that).... It has the 'Open' radio button filled by default and so I assume that would be the applied Event Type... but when my users create events they are not getting classified as OPEN (in fact, maybe not classified as anything)... Is this a tiny glitch? Currently I have to open each event and re-save it to get it to show OPEN.

Thanks.
Hello Andy,

This should actually be the core field of the event and I don't think you should be able to hide it from the Event. It's like allowing user to create an event and not displaying the title of the event It wouldn't make sense?
Mark
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Friday, 26 September 2014 01:39
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I'm operating my events on an 'All Events are Open' basis and so wanted to avoid confusing people with the other options. That's what drove me to use the 'Hide during Creation' option.

I'm just having it nice and simple... Title, Date, Location, Detail and File uploads for things like flyer / registration form
Andy
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Friday, 26 September 2014 01:42
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@Andy, as mentioned by Mark, the field are not supposed to be hidden. Will be adding a restriction on this in the next version for core fields.
Jason Rey
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Friday, 26 September 2014 11:40
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Ok that's a shame but understood. Things just got a little less 'Easy' for my users

Naturally when you remove the option to hide it, you'll have people asking for it again as a Feature Request!

I had hoped it could behave like a standard HIDDEN html form element - so it's got a default selection (OPEN Event) and if that's what gets applied if it's hidden.
Andy
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Friday, 26 September 2014 19:36
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Thanks for understanding Andy We'll see what we can do in the future versions.
Mark
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Saturday, 27 September 2014 20:47
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