'Unnamed Venue' Issue Back

[B.]

Hi. We just noticed that somewhere in the last couple of versions (can’t verify exactly which one) the old issue of ‘Unnamed Venues’ being created and added when you don’t add a specific venue for an event appears to have popped back up.

We had this ongoing known problem on older versions of ECP, and always had to teach clients how to ignore or work around it. But it appeared to have been fixed many versions ago (a year or two ago), and we haven’t had to worry about it for a long time.

But today I started seeing it happen again as I was adding new events without specifying a venue. We had just updated to v.4.0.5, but I can’t confirm that this was when it started up (we didn’t always add new venues every time a minor update came out).

It does create a new venue in the Venues list (named ‘Unnamed Venue’). And it also displays this in the front-end of the site, along with the State, a Google link and a map pointing to what appears to be the center of the state (CA).

We do have a template override for the venue.php file, but that is only one line to remove the hyperlink from the title. And we assume this only affects front-end display, not back-end functionality.

Anyone else noticing this again???

[Brian]

Hi,

Sorry for the issues you are having. I can help troubleshoot this with you.

I tried to replicate the issue on my test site, but it worked correctly.

Do you have any default content set for venues here:

Events > Settings > Default Content > Address

Let me know and we can go from here.

Thanks

[B.]

Hi Brian. Thanks for the reply. You were definitely on to something.

I had checked the Default Content area previously, but went back and tried changing the default State & Country (only 2 fields to have default data) to have nothing selected. They were previously set to CA & USA (figured it would save client a bit of time).

This appears to have done the trick. The ‘Unnamed Venue’ is no longer created if we don’t add anything to the Venue section when creating a new event.

I also checked this on an older Dev site running TEC/ECP 3.11.x. It looks like on previous versions, the default State & Country we had set were ignored for new events so the ‘Unnamed Venue’ issue did not come up. So not sure if something changed for the v.4.x plugins, but we’ll just leave these blank for now.

I’m guessing it wasn’t intended to allow only part of the Default Address (like State & Country) to be pre-populated?!?

Thanks again for the help.

[Brian]

Hi,

Ok glad we narrowed down the source of this. It does look to be a recent bug as you found out.

I have created a bug ticket for us to address this.

I am going to close this ticket to new replies, but the issue is still open and we will update this ticket once we release a fix.

If you have any new questions or issues please create a new ticket and reference this one.

Thanks

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