[Alison]

Hi Hunter:

When an image fails to upload on an event submission, is your system designed to provide the user with a warning that the image did not upload? I need to know, what is the expected behaviour for failed image uploads please so I know what the system should be doing when it is working as designed.

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Geoff:

Sorry for not getting back to you for a few days. Thanks for the references on making the changes I want to make. I read the Themer’s guide and its over my head the way all the different php files work together. So I will look into getting a friend or developer to assist me.

Have a great evening.

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Nico:

Well, there is a lot out there so you can’t know everything. 🙂 That’s my excuse at least. Thanks for the info about the database being the same. Good news.

My issue is resolved now. Thank you.

Alison

[Alison]

Hi… me again

Good news! Half of my problem is now fixed! The problem with me not being recognized as logged in has been solved. I implemented a security certificate on my site, and didn’t realize that I had to change my custom menu links to be https in order for them to work properly.

I still have the following questions though:

So I have a 2 questions about customizing the Event Cost and the Event Website areas of the Submit Event form. 1) Can I add a custom field for “currency” to show up in the Event Cost section of the form, and 2) Can I have a line of text display beside or right below the Event Website field that tells them to enter the URL of where they want ticket buyers to go to buy tickets. If so, then I will figure out how to make that appear on the front end Event View. Right now it says “website”. I would probably change that to “For more information or to buy tickets, click here:”.

Thank you,

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Cliff!

Well I’ll be darned! I checked it by creating 2 events with the same name and the system allows it. And it works great by appending a number to the event that shows in the file name, but doesn’t display to the end user.

Sorry to have troubled you with this! It turns out I didn’t need to worry after all.

Thanks and have a great rest of the weekend.

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Geoff!

Thanks for your amazing response to my questions! It was really helpful to me! I have read over what you said and the links you provided and thought it all through and decided that I am not going to process any payments on my site. I’m going to let registered users submit their free and paid events to my site, but I am not going to hook up with WooCommerce or PayPal or sell any tickets on my site.

So, I have de-activated Woo-Commerce, Community Events Tickets and Events Tickets Plus. The flow is going to be that users register on my site, then they can submit their events, and in the Event Cost field they either type the word FREE or enter the cost. In the Event Website field, I will get them to put in the url of where people can go to buy tickets on their site. So this way, all the payment processing is done by the event organizers and I don’t do any of it.

Of course this means I don’t make any money off ticket sales, but thats OK, and my event organizers will probably like being able to keep all their profits. I am going to figure out other ways to monetize my site. So I have a 2 questions about customizing the Event Cost and the Event Website areas of the Submit Event form. 1) Can I add a custom field for “currency” to show up in the Event Cost section of the form, and 2) Can I have a line of text display beside or right below the Event Website field that tells them to enter the URL of where they want ticket buyers to go to buy tickets. If so, then I will figure out how to make that appear on the front end Event View. Right now it says “website”. I would probably change that to “For more information or to buy tickets, click here:”. Once I get that URL field working I am going to implement Google Tag Manager to see how often these links are being clicked so I can measure how much traffic I am sending to other sites.

One last thing… I am really happy with my decision to not do any payment processing and thankful for your helping me to decide what is best for my situation, but I have inadvertently caused some new problems by turning off Woo Commerce, Community Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus. Essentially my system isn’t recognizing when I am logged in now. I am doing some testing and registering as a new user which seems to work. WordPress lets me register as new users. But when I go to the Submit Event screen it prompts me to log-in again, and then I get lost in this crazy loop of trying to log in and not being able to.

I use another plugin called Profile Press http://profilepress.net to handle my login/out, registration and password resets, and it has been working just fine, and I have not made any changes to it, so I don’t think its responsible for the failure to recognize me as being logged in, but I have opened a ticket with them in case.

While I wait to hear from them I thought I would ask you, is there some way my de-activinging Woo Commerce, Community Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus could have messed up my site’s ability to recognize when users are already logged in?

Thanks you and have a great day!

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Nico:

Since I wrote my last message to you on this thread I stumbled across some code to add tags to the Submit Event form, located here:

https://github.com/bordoni/tec-forum-support/tree/plugin-954138

I have installed this plugin and it seems to work and it even integrates with the Filter Bar which pleasantly surprised me. So I am thinking of using this 954138 plugin, instead of trying to finesse my own solution which was probably doomed to fail anyway.

It seems like the tags become “hyperlinks” and are clickable from within the View Event screen which is nice too.

Just one question though…. are the tags that get created by plugin 954138 getting plopped into the same database as the tags that are created via the Add New Tag routine that is a part of the regular events calendar system? I just want to understand if I am having one or 2 event tags databases if I choose to keep plugin 954138 active. They seem to be the same database to me which is awesome, but I am not sure by any stretch.

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Nico:

Thank you for adding my comments and bumping up the priority.

In the meantime, until you guys can add this functionality into an update, can you tell me where the code is for the Community Events “Submit Event” routine that is invoked by a user going to http://www.whateverdomain.com/events/calendar/add?

I would like to look in there and see how you have built it to pull in the Event Categories to the “Submit Event” routine. I might try to replicate that code with Event Tags by myself as some custom code. I am a beginner but might be able to figure it out with a friend of mine.

Thanks you for all of your help.

Alison

[Alison]

I just checked and the Filter Bar indexes events against tags, so it makes sense that tags should be something event organizers can apply to their events.

[Alison]

Hi Cliff:

Thanks for the info and links. 🙂

Issue is resolved.

Alison

[Alison]

Hi Brian:

Will do! Thanks.

Alison

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