Attendees Export CSV – Custom Fields

[Marcus]

I was able to add custom fields to the checkout process no problem, and also display that information when an admin views that order under WooCommerce in admin. However, in viewing the attendees list, there’s the “Export” button that outputs some information to a handy csv, but obviously doesn’t have these newly-created custom fields of mine. I’ve poured through the classes tracking “attendees_csv” and “generate_filtered_atetendees_list” but I can’t find a good way in to do this. Any suggestions?

[Barry]

Hi Marcus,

At time time it might be easier and faster to build your own CSV exporter to include your custom fields (you could certainly leverage the existing code, though) – however this is really a custom piece of development that we’d need to leave to you to figure out.

With that said, we do welcome feature requests if you want to propose a change that might work well for other users, too.

Thanks!

[Marcus]

Thanks for your response, Barry. I’m sorry to hear that, though this still remains to be a major issue with the client. If I were looking to bid out this job, is there a particular service or list of services you could recommend?

[Barry]

We do have a list of folks who might be able to help out with some development on your project. In no particular order:

WerkPress (http://www.werkpress.com) – customization based projects with minimums of $500-$800
Chris Miller (http://launchbrigade.com) – $125 consultation required before providing an estimate
Nick Ciske (http://thoughtrefinery.com/) – minimum fee depends on project type

If you need a cheaper solution, you might check out some of these listings:

http://freelanceswitch.com
http://directory.codepoet.com/browse/
http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Hopefully the above will help you find someone to work on your site. Good luck!

[Marcus]

Thanks for the tips, Barry. I also noticed a lot of WooTickets requests on freelancer.com. While not as direct as your feature requests forum poll, I imagine monitoring these marketplaces would also be a good place to find some indirect input.

[Kelly]

That’s a great idea, Marcus. Thanks for the suggestion! 🙂

[getreadingright]

We too would like to export additional info with the attendees list. Basic info that is included in the checkout process should be available in the attendees export. How else are you meant to manage this if you can’t export the info in it’s entirety?

[Barry]

Hi getreadingright,

Thanks for posting. I’d like to note first of all that we do encourage you to create new threads of your own wherever possible and avoid re-opening older threads like this one – this helps to ensure fair service for all of our customers and avoids some existing glitches in our forum software.

We too would like to export additional info with the attendees list.

Though it is outside the scope of forum support to go into this in too much detail, the attendee list is built using WP_List_Table and, especially after having been bolstered by some extra hooks, is really quite customizable. That wasn’t necessarily the case when this thread was first created, but if you’re at home developing for WordPress you could certainly pull all sorts of data into the attendee list.

It would be fantastic if we could make this happen “automagically” but of course we don’t necessarily know if you want all custom fields to be pulled in or just some – neither can we guarantee that everyone is storing and retrieving their custom data in the same way. Not to make excuses, but just to highlight a few of the challenges from our perspective.

For that reason, implementing something like this as a further piece of customization work is likely the best way forward.

Basic info that is included in the checkout process should be available in the attendees export. How else are you meant to manage this if you can’t export the info in it’s entirety?

If you want to leave a request on our UserVoice page we’d be happy to consider anything you put forward, but the intention of the attendee list was to give basic information that will let event organizers “check in” arrivals, etc, rather than convey complete details of each order.

We’re definitely open to ideas, though, so please do consider posting on UserVoice and that will also allow other users to show their support.

Thanks again 🙂

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