Show Venue Address When Editing Event

[stephenschildbach]

After submitting an event on the front end community event form, the Venue Address is hidden intentionally, but in my opinion this was a bad coding choice. When members are going back to edit their event, they are not sure what the venue address is? If the member decides to put the address in using the saved Venues, they don’t know if the address is correct. The address to the venue should always be shown. This is my recommendation for the next update, but for now, could you show me how I would display the name and address of the venue below the venue dropdown? The fields are hidden, I did a css hack by “force” showing them by overwriting the styles that are hidden deep in the core plugin. But, that created two problems: #1 messed up the layout, and #2 the name field does not display. I would like to correct these two issues if possible. You must have had other customers request showing the name and address while in edit mode on the community event form page? This is an important one for my client.

[Geoff]

Hello stephenschildbach, thanks for getting in touch!

Sorry to hear you’re disappointed with the Community Events interface here. We do try to accommodate as many preferences as possible and we clearly fell short in your eyes here.

I realize you see hiding the address fields as a bad coding choice, but it is something we implemented having tested other ideas and soliciting feedback. I’m afraid that for the time being, this is the default behavior and modifying it will take custom development, as you’ve already started and noted, and is beyond the level of support we can provide here in the forums.

One idea might be to remove the dropdown of available venues altogether. You will likely get duplicate submission this way, but the address lines will always be visible and available. You can do this by creating a template override (more on this in our Themer’s Guide) of the modules/venue.php file and removing the select menu.

If you have another idea of how the UI should work here, we’d love to hear about it and definitely welcome you to submit it on our UserVoice forum, which is where we take new feature requests and suggestions.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions here and I’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[stephenschildbach]

For the most part, the Community events plugin is great. It is my client, a community of people, who all agreed that it was confusing to have the Venue information hidden to the person editing the event. You’ve got to admit, when you go to other membership sites to change your account address, the address isn’t hidden. I would agree with my client that fields should not be hidden if people want to edit them.

The second part to this question is removing “available venues” in the dropdown, is that possible? Again, people editing, don’t need other venues that don’t pertain to them. Is there a function that could be written to not display these. I tried CSS, but no luck.

Thank you,
Stephen

[Geoff]

Hey Stephen, thanks for following up!

I think I see benefits to both angles and it all comes down to differences on how the plugin is being used. For example, the plugin was designed for front-end event submission and management rather than venue management. That information can still be edited on the back end and the hidden fields help prevent duplicate submissions. At the same time, I can see benefit in possibly making that a configurable preference, or making venues themselves editable on the front end. Either way, it would be great for you to share more detailed thoughts on how that might work on the UserVoice forum. 🙂

The second part to this question is removing “available venues” in the dropdown, is that possible?

Did the suggestion to remove the select menu not work? That’s the route I would suggest since “Use New Venue” is going to be the default value anyway.

Cheers!
Geoff

[stephenschildbach]

I’ll convey your explanation to my client regarding how venues can be managed and were intended to be managed. And, I’ll contribute my suggestion to the UserVoice forum.

I’ve gotten quite familiar with venue.php and how the venue dropdown is actually being pulled from the free events calendar plugin (Am I correct here?).

My client is leaning toward keeping the dropdown and accepting the limitation of a hidden address. Considering that we are keeping the dropdown: internally, in the dropdown is “my venues” and “available venues”. Is there a function I could write to remove “available venues”, but keep “my venues”? Notice the two sections in the dropdown. What makes this difficult for me is I’m not seeing what files handle this dropdown, so I was wondering if you knew of a way to hide that portion of the dropdown, while keeping the dropdown? CSS does not work.

[Geoff]

Hey there! I went ahead and answered the second part of your question in your other thread, but yes the the venue form is indeed being pulled from the core The Events Calendar plugin.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread since it seems we’ve covered the original topic at hand, but I look forward to seeing your feedback come through on the UserVoice forum to see if there are ways we can tackle front-end event submissions better.

Please feel free to open a new thread if you have more questions and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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