Simplified Attendee List with Attendee Information

[wineschool]

I have rooted about the forums and knowledgebase, and I think I may be the first person to ask this question.

How can I simplify the attendee list? We use the list in a very simple way: print it out and check off attendees (there are never more than 30 people in our events).

I would love to edit the attendee list. All I really need is the custom “Attendee Information” and the purchaser name for each ticket.

Is this possible?

[George]

Hey @wineschool,

Thanks for reaching out.

Simplifying the attendee list is technically possible at this time, but unfortunately not without making some extensive code modifications. 🙁

I say “unfortunately” because we are not able to help with writing custom code, and so it’s a project that you would have to take the reins on: either writing code yourself, or hiring a professional to assist you.

Many of the customizations required also require modifying core plugin code, which is a tricky thing because that means that each time the plugins are updated, the custom code will be overwritten and would have to be re-implemented.

I’m sorry to bear this bad news, but hope that the information is helpful nonetheless. Please let me know what you think and if there is anything else I can try to help with!

Sincerely,
George

[wineschool]

Ah poop. I love the elegance, but I miss the chance to do some cowboy coding.

You can see where a simpler attendee list would be very beneficial, I am sure. Also I am sure the team wants users to embrace the new “attendee information” option and use it to it’s fullest.

One thing that would be awesome would be to have that “Attendee Information” have it’s own column.

There is some code kicking around to add a telephone number column. Could the same be done for “Attendee INformation”. After all, if we can’t make the list simpler, let’s make it more complicated 😉

Is there a way to hide stuff via css? I don’t see a way, but no one ever said I was a good coder.

[George]

Hey @wineschool,

To address things in reverse order, yes, you can indeed tweak things via CSS — although this may be especially hard to pull off in the context of printing out attendees list. You can set up print stylesheets (this article covers some examples), but it would take a good deal of CSS to end up with a printable attendees list along the ones of what you are describing.

As for having the Attendee Information in its own column, this is something we struggled with for quite some time. It’s a difficult design element to get right, because there is no standard use case for what will be included in “Attendee Information” fields.

You can get clever with custom admin columns if you’d like. There are numerous tutorials out there — here is just one example to get started with.

I hope these resources help and would recommend making backups of your site and all of the plugins/themes on it before tinkering with custom coding.

Cheers!
George

[Craig]

I’d quite like to be able to print off the attendee list without the event information taking up so much space on the printout. Is there any way the there could be an option to reduce the space that bit takes up? Or event to print a simplified amount of info? I only get about 3 attendees in the bottom of the first sheet that’s printed. I’d rather not have to export the csv file and print it from there.

[George]

Hey Craig,

Unfortunately it’s not easily possible to modify the appearance of the attendees lists in its printouts. You would have to manually write some extensive code—PHP and CSS both—to reduce the number of columns and to adjust how much space they take up.

I’m sorry to bear this news. I do have a list of customization resources you can refer to if you are keen modifying the attendees list printouts → http://theeventscalendar.com/customizations

In regards to this specific thread, @wineschool has not posted in over two weeks so I will close up this thread and consider this topic “closed”.

If you have further questions or issues, no worries! Open a new thread any time and we will respond promptly.

— George

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