Using the HivePress Bookings extension with a booking import URL. When two events overlap on the external calendar, the first event encountered seems to be used to block out availability, even if the second event is longer.
Steps to reproduce
- Create an full-day event on a calendar (e.g. 2025-05-06)
- Create a second event that overlaps, but is longer (e.g. 2025-05-06 - 2025-05-07)
- Add the calendar as an import URL to a listing (e.g. https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_f0644ac4a9f6fa5c36a60c88db36fae52db738e757708bdc370f3a40c6cee80e%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics)
Actual result
- Searching for listings on 2025-05-06 does not show the listing as available
- Searching for listings on 2025-05-07 shows the listing as available
Expected result
- Searching for listings on 2025-05-06 does not show the listing as available
- Searching for listings on 2025-05-07 does not show the listing as available
Extra details
- Calendar setup
- Relevant lines of code in
includes/components/class-booking.php
- What I suspect is happening is that the first event gets created as a private/invisible booking, then the second event is skipped due to the first event now being an overlapping booking
- Internally, we have worked around this by using an exact match on start/end time for any external events longer than 24 hours, and using
get_overlapping_query()for shorter events to prevent creating huge numbers of small bookings
