Series of Events / Recurring

[Matt]

Hello,

I am trying to group up to 24 classes into one event in the Events Calendar Pro with the Tickets Plus. Each class has it’s own title and description (ie Class 1 : Intro, Class 2: Graphic design, …). Each of the classes has already been added.

See http://staging.anantacreatives.com/fsny/schedule/class-schedule-registration/

How can I group existing events into a series and have one ticket price.

Thanks in advance for your help,

[Josh]

Hey Matt,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

Would you mind giving a little more detail on what you’re trying to accomplish here? You could relate the different classes to each other using the built-in Event Categories feature. However, each event would need their own tickets created for them directly on each event.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Matt]

Hi Josh,
Thanks for looking into this.

I am trying to group several events into a single purchase price. For example, if you look at the January calendar, it shows four events for a January Weekend Introductory Course at a cost of $1,100.00.
See http://staging.anantacreatives.com/fsny/schedule/class-schedule-registration/?tribe-bar-date=2017-01

Per your request, I have put these four events into a single child category called January Weekend Introductory ( off of foundation parent group).

I would like the user to click any one of the four events on the calendar and have it bring up all of the four events with one ticket cost of $1100 to purchase.

thanks again

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Matt.

[Josh]

Hey Matt,

Thanks for clarifying here!

It sounds like our recurring events feature may actually be a good fit for you here. Traditionally, we advertise that we don’t support tickets on recurring events but this is mainly due to most users wanting to have ticket pools custom to each ocurrence of an event.

However, the default functionality available with using tickets on recurring events sounds exactly like what you’re looking for – a single pool of tickets for a group of events.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Matt]

Hi Josh,

Thank you for your reply.

I tried recurring events however, two major problems exist
1. The recurring events cannot be on the same day
2. Each recurring event will need it’s own description

In my example : I have four classes on the weekend, the whole series costs $1,100
two on Saturday, Jan 14 and two on Sunday, Jan 15.
– Introductory Series ‘Class 1: Introduction to Design’ January 14, 2017 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
– Introductory Series ‘Class 2: A Graphic Design’ January 14, 2017 @ 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm
– Introductory Series ‘Class 3: Composition Bouquet’ January 15, 2017 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
– Introductory Series ‘Class 4: Dutch Bouquet’ January 15, 2017 @ 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm

Each class has their own description and the series name is Winter 2017

I don’t see how I can use recurring events for this type of series.

Please let me know if I am missing something or if you can suggest a different solution.

thank you,

[Josh]

Hey Matt,

Thanks for following up and clarifying here.

I understand your concerns there and see why using the Recurring events feature wouldn’t work for this particular scenario.

As an alternative here, you can create the 4 events using our calendar plugin and then in the description for each, you can add a link to a ticket page. So, using Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus, you can create tickets on any post type, including pages. So, if you create a page to house the tickets for these events, you can link from the events to that page and still take advantage of all the ticket and attendee management features of the plugin.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Matt]

Hi Josh,

Thank you for that solution.
It worked however, I would like the calendar to link directly to the series page?

In my example, I have four events that make up the January Weekend Series. I created a page that shows all four events and allows the user to purchase a ticket. See http://staging.anantacreatives.com/fsny/schedule/class-schedule-registration/january-weekend-introductory-series/

I would like to go directly to that page from the calendar to that series page.
http://staging.anantacreatives.com/fsny/schedule/class-schedule-registration/

So, when a user clicks on the January 14th event, they are directed to the page showing all four events and that user can purchase a ticket to that series.

I wanted to remove the extra click to the single event.

So far so good.
Thanks in advance for your help
Any questions, please let me know

[Josh]

Hey Matt,

Awesome! We’re getting there!

I’m limited on the amount of customization support that I can provide for the full feature that you’re describing, but lets see if I can help get you pointed in the right direction here.

For me, I would maybe start here by:

1. Creating a new category for these events and assigning just those events to that category.
2. Then, I would customize the event link on the event listings. You can check the category and if the event is in the category, change the link to the page you created.

For example, if you wanted to do this for the month view, you can follow our Themer’s Guide to copy the views > month > single-event.php file from the core Events Calendar plugin into your theme.

From there (currently at line #27 at the writing of this response) you can see the link being assigned for each event. You can customize that output by doing a check like:

https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/5b4a0b060b97acaeecb2a05e32364ed6

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

 

[Matt]

Hi Josh,

Great! Thanks that worked.

I added ACF to add the page link to the event to be more dynamic and end-user friendly.

Therefore, my code in the /tribe-events/month/single-event is

/* uses ACF plugin to find if an event is in a series */
if ( get_field('link_to_series') )  { 
	$link = get_the_permalink(get_field('link_to_series', false, false ));
} else {
	$link = tribe_get_event_link( $post );	
}	

Thanks for your help!

[Josh]

Hey Matt,

No problem, happy to help. I’m glad you were able to get what you were looking for pulled together here.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

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