Unnamed Venue Created When Using Default State / Country

[Mike]

Is there a way to prevent an ‘Unnamed Venue’ from being created when using a default State + Country in Default Address Content? I’m assuming this is why it is creating an “Unnamed Venue”.

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

If all your events are effectively taking place in the same state and country and you don’t wish to provide any more information than that you could simply create a new venue containing that information only – then set it as the default venue.

Otherwise, the purpose of the default address fields is really to save time where (for example) you need to create lots of different venues for your various events that all have something in common (ie, they all take place in the same city or state).

Does that help/clarify things at all?

[Mike]

Thanks Barry.

All our events don’t take place in the same State, but like you said to save time, we have leveraged the default address field to make life easier since most are in our home state.

I know each and every user probably wants this plugin to feature differently but what would make sense for me is that when creating an event, if the venue area isn’t touched, then no venue is assumed. Problem is, even if the venue isn’t touched, it assumes a venue based solely on the default state/country.

Since most folks are going to probably take advantage of the default address field, at least for a default country, it might make sense to assume (by the plugin) that no venue is intended when the venue contains just the default state/country and untouched otherwise.

Is this possible from your end? Otherwise I’ll need to side with removing the benefit of default address content to ensure that no venue is created when left blank.

[Barry]

Hmm. Well I definitely see the sense in what you’re saying – and it could certainly be worth posting this on UserVoice (our preferred channel for feature requests) as that way others can also show their support for the idea – or indeed you might find an existing request for the same thing that you can up-vote.

As things stand, though, those address fields relate specifically to venues – and the frontend templates look for a venue to pull that information from: if there is no venue, no address will display.

We’re open to changes on this front but ideally we’d like to get a better feel for how many people might be interested in “venue-less” addresses before making a broader change to the product itself.

One last idea that could be worth considering is using additional fields – that would let you add address information independently of venues and, if you’re up for a little customization work, you could modify the meta templates (such as modules/meta/venue.php) to pull this in if there is no venue.

I hope that gives you another avenue to explore and please do post this and any other feature requests you might have across on UserVoice 🙂

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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