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Perhaps this is a silly question, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere...and I'm a little confused.

My assumption was that, because there is a registration end date, that as of that date and time, if the event were selected from the front end, that Civi would indicate that registration time for the event had passed...it doesn't.

Also, what is the enable/disable in Manage Events...it doesn't change the allow online registration flag in the event record...what, exactly, does it do...

I disabled the event, and then unpublished the menu item, but there really must be a better way...I shouldn't have to babysit the system, when I've already told it when to stop taking registrations...

Has no one else come across this?

will try...thanks, lobo...

where do I go to do this...went to the joomla demo site, but don't see how to get into the administrator section...

Hmmm, lobo...had another look at this; it's probably working as designed, but it doesn't really make sense for the Joomla way of doing things...perhaps it has more to do w/ how the front-end is displayed in Joomla as opposed to Drupal, or perhaps I just don't know what I'm doing (a distinct possibility)...

In the drupal demo, everything seems to work as intended; if you put a registration stop date in, it no longer displays the verbiage to "Register", but it still displays the event. If you disable the event, it doesn't show up in the front listing at all, which is desireable.

However, with joomla, I'm displaying each event as a menu item; is there a way to do a listing of all events as in drupal example (www.drupal.demo.civicrm/event/reset=1) If I display it in a menu, and put in a stop registration date, it no longer displays the link to register. If, however, I disable it, I get the following error:backTrace


/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Error.php, backtrace, 258
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Event/Page/EventInfo.php, fatal, 82
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Event/Invoke.php, run, 107
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Component.php, main, 130
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php, invoke, 158
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php, invoke, 82
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php, civicrm_invoke, 26
/home/content/g/f/s/gfsoadmin/html/index.php, require_once, 238


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This makes sense, since the menu system in joomla is simply calling for an event that is disabled, and doesn't quite know how to handle it; that's why I'll need to manually take the expired events out of the menu...not really sure if you can do anything about this, since, really, it's the menu system in Joomla that's displaying the Civi component, and there is no way to 'expire' a menu item.

A possible workaround might be in Civi's front-end menu component...to display "Event has passed" or some such when an item is disabled...This will take some more input from other users to figure out what is the best way of handling it.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction to do the testing; this seems it is another area in which Drupal works fine, but Joomla is lacking.