Additional Field with Default Content (Text Area)

[Kevin]

I’m hoping to create an additional field in the add event form that is a text area – but I would like it to be populated with default content that can be changed by the organizer if they wish. Is that possible? Thanks again.

[Geoff]

Hey Kevin — good question!

Text areas are definitely possible in the additional fields settings, though I’m afraid that setting it up with default content is not. That sounds like it would make an excellent idea in our feature request forum.

You might be able to pull that off with Advanced Custom Fields instead, but I’m sorry it isn’t baked right into The Events Calendar.

Geoff

[Kevin]

I have added the feature request and hopefully other users jump on it. I checked out the Advance Custom Fields plugin your referenced. Perhaps i’m not using it correctly – but it seems to not affect the Events Calendar Additional Fields which is what I think i need to do in order update the ADD EVENT fields.

[Geoff]

Thanks for doing that, Kevin! I’d love to see others jump on that as well.

You’re right — ACF will not directly affect the calendar’s custom fields, but you can add an ACF field to Events posts and then modify the single event view template to incorporate the ACF field.

Sorry again for not having a concrete answer for you here, but I hope this at least helps answer your question.

Cheers,
Geoff

[Jayson]

I solved it this way:

// add all tickets to a ticket category and add events category to tickets on creation
add_filter( ‘wootickets_after_save_ticket’, ‘tribe_add_category_to_woocommerce_tickets’ );
function tribe_add_category_to_woocommerce_tickets( $ticket_id ) {

//add full name requirement on save
global $wpdb;
$meta_enabled=1;
//Copy this string from phpmyAdmin after saving the default string. It’s in the post_meta table
$metaval= ‘a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:”type”;s:4:”text”;s:8:”required”;s:2:”on”;s:5:”label”;s:9:”Full name”;s:4:”slug”;s:9:”full-name”;s:5:”extra”;a:0:{}}}’;

delete_post_meta($ticket_id, ‘_tribe_tickets_meta_enabled’);
//replace “tpp_” with your wordpress database prefix
$wpdb->insert(‘tpp_postmeta’, array(
‘post_id’ => $ticket_id,
‘meta_key’ => ‘_tribe_tickets_meta_enabled’,
‘meta_value’ => $meta_enabled
));

//ignore if enter already in – need to code
delete_post_meta($ticket_id, ‘_tribe_tickets_meta’);
$wpdb->insert(‘tpp_postmeta’, array(
‘post_id’ => $ticket_id,
‘meta_key’ => ‘_tribe_tickets_meta’,
‘meta_value’ => $metaval
));

}

[Geoff]

Hey Jayson, thanks for chiming in!

That’s an interesting way to go — it looks like this is slightly different than what Kevin is looking for but I certainly do appreciate you dropping this in. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

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