Custom field as a parameter

Question

i 'm working on a project about events in a city using Solspace calendar. What i want is the user to select some data in a form (date range, category -music, theatre, etc- and area). The data are going to the results page. Everything works on the results page apart the area which is a custom text field.

My code is

{exp:calendar:events
    channel="events"
    category="{segment_3}"
    show_recurrences="yes"
    load_resource_consuming_data="yes"
    date_range_start="{segment_4}-{segment_5}-{segment_6}" 
    date_range_end="{segment_7}-{segment_8}-{segment_9}" 
    limit="10" paginate="both"
}

The area text field is "event_city2" and values can be "Athens" or "Piraeus", etc Now, i have tried to include it inside the above code as a parameter like event_city2 ="segment_10" or calendar:event_city2 ="segment_10" or search:event_city2 ="segment_10" with no success

I saw in the solspace calendar documentation that a custom field can be a variable but not a parameter.

So i'm asking the community if there is a solution to that

Thanks

Answer 1

It states in the docs that there is hard coded limit of 9 segments. So segment_10 will never resolve.

Answer 2

By its very nature, calendaring add-ons with recurring event handling like Calendar use a lot of resources to render. It may not be as much of an issue for smaller sites, but for ones with many events it becomes a major performance issue. Because of this, we kept the {exp:calendar:events} template tag very lean to keep it always running fast.

This unfortunately means that not all features available with {exp:channel:entries} are also available for {exp:calendar:events}. In this particular case, custom field searching (search:field_name="value") is not available at this time.