Problem with drop-down lists of venues and organisers for a marketplace

[Huiwen]

hi,

My website is a marketplace for events. I just noticed that whenever a new event organiser registers his/her venue and the organiser info, they are added in the drop-down lists of venues and organisers. It is great that this info is saved and the event organiser does not have to enter a second time; but it also means that the other event organisers would see it and have to bear with increasingly longer drop-down lists of venues and organisers, as the community grows. Is it possible for the system to memorise only the venue and the organiser info from the event organiser him/herself only?

• This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Huiwen.

[Cliff]

Hi, Huiwen.

Thanks for your detailed question.

I believe Community Events already works as you’re describing.

Please test these scenarios on your own site but I believe it works this way:

• If an Administrator adds an Organizer or Venue (O/V), everyone will be able to see and select it.
• If a non-Administrator adds an O/V, only they will be able to see it.

To test these, you could use a plugin like User Role Editor (we cannot guarantee its compatibility but it generally considered a reliable plugin) to switch between your site’s users to see what they see.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Huiwen]

Hi Cliff,

Thanks for trying to help.

Ok I’ve installed the plugin. The question for me is how can I disable the vendors to see others’ O/V? Which capabilities shall I look into specifically?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Huiwen.

[Cliff]

I believe Community Events already works as you’re wanting.

I’d suggest a plugin like User Switching (third-party, not guaranteed or supported by us) to test out the scenarios you’re concerned about.

For example, logged in as yourself (an Administrator, I assume), create an Organizer, then switch to an Author user (or whatever level user) and see if that Organizer is available in the drop-down (I believe it should be). Then create a new Organizer as Author X and then switch to another Author Y user and see if they can see the Organizer created by Author X (I believe the will not be able to)… etc…

Then let me know if something’s not working how you’d like it to.

[Huiwen]

Hi Cliff,

I’m confused. So instead of the User Role Editor plugin that you recommended earlier, I should use User Switching plugin instead?

As for your suggested scenarios, I’ve already tested without any plugin. I have created a, say, User A (non-admin) to list an event, and then log out, and log in again with a User B (non-admin). User B can still see User A’s O/V in the dropdown menu – the only difference is that it shows in “available venue / organiser” rather than “my venue / organiser”. Below is a screenshot FYI.

I dont understand what would be the difference by installing those plugins you suggested since these two users are already registered as non-admin.

Please advice, thanks.

huiwen

[Cliff]

My apologies for the confusion. I swear this is the way it used to work (but I didn’t go back looking through past code to verify). Anyway, another person and I both tested and it doesn’t function this way anymore.

I dug through the code and found Tribe__Events__Linked_Posts__Chooser_Meta_Box from /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/src/views/community/modules/organizer.php is what renders the O/V edit areas in the Community Events form.

Tribe__Events__Linked_Posts__Chooser_Meta_Box is from /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/Tribe/Linked_Posts/Chooser_Meta_Box.php

Organizers and Venues (O/V) are “linked posts” to Events, if that helps you understand the naming…

It uses saved_linked_post_dropdown() from /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/Tribe/Linked_Posts.php, which is where the magic happens for what you’re wanting — you can see its code here: https://github.com/moderntribe/the-events-calendar/blob/4.3.5/src/Tribe/Linked_Posts.php#L731-L878

It uses edit_others_posts capability, but the code didn’t lend itself to a quick and dirty customization to change how this works. But we created a new extension for you. I tested it and it seems to work as expected:

https://theeventscalendar.com/content/uploads/2016/12/tribe-ext-hide-linked-posts.zip

Please try it out and let me know how it works for you.

[Huiwen]

Ok many thanks Cliff. I need to wait for my web developer to come back from the holidays in order to test your code. Thanks for providing the extension and I will let you know the outcome.

[Cliff]

Sure thing. Please do let us know how it goes.

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Thank you!

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