duplicate venues

[Jen Russo]

is there any way to block community users from creating a venue that is the same as one that is already there?

is there any way to prevent any user from creating a venue that is already created?

Is there a way to have an advanced (taxonomy) post manager in the venue system?

I would like to show a couple of fields on the venue list, like the address, phone and a couple of other items, so that when i am reviewing or approving pending i can check the info without having to click into the venue to review.

It would be great to have the venue screen show a link /list to events using that venue so if you have to delete it because of dupes you would know what events that would effect.

[Barry]

Hi mauitime,

is there any way to block community users from creating a venue that is the same as one that is already there?

Yes that should be possible as a customization – however there are some practical difficulties in doing so: unless you are finding the duplicated venues people are creating are identical in every way (name, street address, etc) you would need to define some sort of criteria to catch what you feel counts as a duplicate.

For instance, two people might refer to the same venue by two different names – and the actual address could be identical. But occasionally this is legitimate. Or someone might misspell the city name, or something of that order, but actually be referring to a pre-existing venue (it’s hard for a piece of software to pick up on this sort of thing though, given the range of possible place names and potential similarity between some of them).

In situations like those you’d need to be pretty careful about how you apply such a customization.

is there any way to prevent any user from creating a venue that is already created?

So for this question by any user are you including admin users? If so, that may be possible but would certainly require some amount of relatively advanced customization work.

Is there a way to have an advanced (taxonomy) post manager in the venue system?

I would like to show a couple of fields on the venue list, like the address, phone and a couple of other items, so that when i am reviewing or approving pending i can check the info without having to click into the venue to review.

Again, possible but customization territory.

That said I definitely see the worth in adding additional columns to the admin venue list to show the address – and we would welcome any feature request you might post along these lines 🙂

I hope that helps/clarifies things.

 

• This reply was modified 11 years, 3 months ago by Barry.

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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