Organizer & Venue Default Selections

[Jason Broderick]

Hey Guys,

I wonder if it’s possible – like with the Events Cal Pro Add On – to have community event defaults settings for users submitting events.

Right now the default is – “Use New Venue” and “Use New Organizer” with the FULL forms displayed for both, this makes the community events page seem like a daunting task to complete at first look even though 99% of community organisers will use the same venue and same organiser information that they have registered every time.

My community keep complaining that the process takes too long and I keep having to explain that feature. If we just had the power to set defaults to be “Select the last used organizer.” and “Select the last used venue” or even just to set the default to be ANY saved venue or organizer that would probably catch 80% of my community who only have one venue and one organizer?

I wonder if there is a little functions.php tweak you might be able to suggest for this and if it might be considered for a future release of community events

Peace and love,

J

[Cliff]

Hi, Jason.

At this time, this is actually really easy since you have both PRO and Community Events.

Just go to wp-admin > Events > Settings > Default Content tab > and set your default Organizer and Venue.

I say “at this time” because I’m not certain this is how it’ll always be… For example, you might want different default content for Community Events vs wp-admin Events editor… but there aren’t any current plans to change it.

Please let me know how this works for you.

[Jason Broderick]

Hi Cliff,

Thanks for the response unfortunately this is not what I am asking for, I already knew about the global defaults.

If I set global defaults to be my own venue/organizer information then that will mean when someone from the community submits an event the default will be ME and MY Venue.

What I want is a setting that defaults to THEM and THEIR venue.

That after the first time they add themselves and their venue the next time they submit an event it defaults to the first or most recent option under “My Venues” and “My Organizers”

99% of my community have one organizer – themselves, and one venue – their own. So what i want to avoid is them having to select that every time, I want the dropdown to default to their own entry first then allow them to add a new one if they need to.

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Venue Details

Use Saved Venue:

== Use New Venue
== Users Own Venue 1 <– DEFAULT
== My Venues
== Other Venue
== Other Venue 2
== Other Venue 3

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[Cliff]

I’d say this is possible with custom coding (getting user’s most recently-created event and pre-filling that same Organizer/Venue into the New Event form — or possibly even adding data to their WordPress profile field and pulling from their — or get their most recently-created Organizer and most recently-created Venue and pre-fill that).

We cannot provide such in-depth customization help, per our Scope of Support / Terms.

If there’s a code snippet you’d like me to put some eyes on or something else I can help you with, please update this ticket or create a new ticket if it’s a separate issue.

Thank you very much for your understanding.

If you need some coding help, you may want to ask your developer or reference our documentation and list of known customizers.

[Jason Broderick]

Thanks for that cliff.

I am a bit skeptical about the relative complexity you have set out as being the ways you have suggested. I don’t think there would be any need to pull the users most recently created event, add any info to their profile or anything like that – that’s making it far too convoluted.

The form already pulls the users “My Venue” information in.

The form already pulls a default setting from my global defaults selecting one of the “non-user Venues”.

All I want to do is to tweak that to pull the default from one of their venues instead of one of mine. You wouldn’t have to pull any recent posts, or anything that’s not already in that form.

I understand you guys can’t do any custom coding or anything like that – but could you point me to the edit-event module that handles the global default settings so I can have a poke around.

J

[Cliff]

The Event Edit form is at /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/views/community/edit-event.php

In that same folder are the edit-organizer.php and edit-venue.php files.

In that same folder, there’s also a “modules” folder that these 3 files load.

You can reference our Themer’s Guide for overriding these template files.

Although not able to be overridden via our Themer’s Guide, you might also benefit from reviewing

• this file: /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/functions/template-tags.php
• this folder: /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/Tribe/

I hope this helps get you on your way.

Please let me know how it turns out.

[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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