Past Events... Can they be edited?

[Steven]

With the soon to be imposed mandatory change to themes, our night photography group which has many past events with light colored text on our dark background is going to go up in smoke. The only background allowed going forward is white - and clearly the logic is not rewriting the HTML or BBcode that selected specific colors which is our problem.

I know that the UI doesn't allow editing past events, but I was hoping we could fix our past items so they will still be legible after the drop dead date... but it seems if I try to post to a past event I get a curious error:

{"errors":{"LOCALTIME":"INVALID_VALUE"},"details":"Unable to perform selected action","problem":"Your command could not be completed"}

Of course I'm not passing any time, and LOCALTIME doesn't seem to be a supported parameter. My questions, therefore are:

1. Is it possible to change a past event? (I hope so, or a lot of our past events will be illegible soon).

2. Is there something special needed?

I tried using this, for example:  

    https://api.meetup.com/2/event/112156922

Where that thing is an event that ended last week.

I only passed Name, Why, and Description.  Then I pared it down to just Description using this form in my browser.

<form method="post" action="https://api.meetup.com/2/event/112156922?key=3a287....">

DESCRIPTION<br />

<textarea cols="60" name="description" rows="2">This is the description for the event</textarea><br />

&nbsp;<input type="submit" name="Submit" style="height: 26px" value="Submit" />

</form>

The same operations work OK with a future event.

Please, please tell me that updating a past event will be possible.  This would also make it possible to remove things that were unintentionally left there, like email addresses and phone numbers.

[Doug Tangren]

We think this issue should be fixed. Can you try applying the new theme editor again (  "Edit appearance" under "Group tools" ) You don't actually have to commit to the theme just check to see if the issue is currently fixed. Let us know if not. With regard to support for editing past events, we do not support this. We consider past event immutable.

Thanks.

 

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[Steven]

Please, please tell me that updating a past event will be possible.  This would also make it possible to remove things that were unintentionally left there, like email addresses and phone numbers.

We think this issue should be fixed. Can you try applying the new theme editor again (  "Edit appearance" under "Group tools" ) You don't actually have to commit to the theme just check to see if the issue is currently fixed. Let us know if not. With regard to support for editing past events, we do not support this. We consider past event immutable.

Three major problems:

1. The "try it" doesn't let you see anything... only the current page. If I select any past event to see what has been done, it reverts to the current theme.  I can't even expand an event to see what a current event looks like!

2. In order to get around 1 I FOOLISHLY said "Yes" to keep my changes.  So I'm up the creek without a paddle.  (And muttering evil things under my breath while I changed over 30 FUTURE events to accommodate for the action).

3. There is no "dark theme" anyway. So unless a dark theme is allowed, it's pretty obvious that any BBCODE markup that looks like this:

  [color=white]HEADLINE HERE[/color]   or HTML markup like this:
  <span style="color: #ffffff;">HEADLINE HERE</span>

is going to render white on white... I.E. illegible.

Example: This

 Ditto for any similar bright colors on what was previously a dark or black background but is now by fiat going to be "White".

Becomes This:

  Ditto for any similar bright colors on what was previously a dark or black background but is now by fiat going to be "White".

I *sort of* understand it makes sense to force the past to be immutable... but the presence of an email address, contact phone or personal address in past events is sufficient reason to want to have past events changeable - but not deleteable.  The new mandatory "on white ONLY" styling adds yet another reason to allow updates to past events.  Or how about a tool that dynamically or permanently strips all color tags out of past events?  

 

[Steven]

It occurs to me that Meetup has already made an exception to the immutability.  If someone leaves the group the event roster now no longer reads "Bill Smith" it says "Former Member".  That's also true of any discussion, comment, or what-have-you that "Bill Smith" may have left before he left the group.

Fortunately the payments history still has the actual name.