Additional Fields: Column for the name in the backend

[Marcus]

Would it be a good idea to add a column with the field names in the backend for the additional fields?

I collect some of my data from a database in which there are some of the same field identifiers for the organizer and venue. In order to be able to differentiate them in the assignment, I would like to give these identifiers a different title than that in the frontend appears

[Andras]

Hello again Marcus,

I don’t fully understand what you described. Could you share some more details with me, maybe some screenshots or mockups to help me better understand?

Thanks!

Andras

[Marcus]

Hello Andràs!

Thx for your Answer. I’ll try to explain it

In the menu of the events calendar pro there is the tab ‘Additional Fields’. There you enter the names of the fields, which are contained for example in CSV files to be imported.

For example, in my case:

organizer_street
organizer_postcode
organizer_plcace
organizer_country
organizer_telephone
veranstalter_email
veranstalter_internet

venue_street
venue_postcode
venue_place
venue_country
venue_telephone
venue_email
venue_internet

Since I only have one column ‘Field Label’ in the backend, I have to enter the complete name, for example organizer Street and Venue Street, to be able to assign the fields correctly.

Thus the field names appear in the frontend as well. But there I would like to have only street, postal code, etc.

[Andras]

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the explanation, now I fully understand.

Unfortunately at the moment there is no way to manually set the field names in an easy way. They are generated automatically and it is not possible to change them through the interface.

I believe it should be possible to change them if you dig in the database.

The additional fields are saved in the wp_options table, where the option name is ‘tribe_events_calendar_options’.

The data is serialized and contains also other TEC settings, so you need to be careful when changing that.

I was checking around a bit on the net and found a nice serializer / unserializer tool:

• http://php.fnlist.com/php/serialize
• http://php.fnlist.com/php/unserialize

You can take the value of ‘tribe_events_calendar_options’ and unserialize it.

Change the field names.

Then run that code through the serialilzer.

Update the code in the database.

I hope this helps.

Andras

[Andras]

Note, when you change the fields again in the admin, i.e. add a new field, then your changes in the database will be overwritten.

A.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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