When you have many community event submitters you need an efficient way for an admin to review all the PENDING posts BEFORE they are published to the calendar. The regular calendar views won’t help with this, because the pending events won’t appear there.<\/p>\n
What is needed is a list that includes all the fields of submitted community events that are pending (in particular cost and description, which do not now appear in the review list) so they can be quickly reviewed and edited if necessary prior to publishing. Using the admin panel requires the admin to individually open every pending event to check cost and description because they do not appear in any WP or Community Events list. Try to manage a Community Events calendar with lots of events on it (ours typically has over 100 each month), and you will understand what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n
IMHO, this is a design oversight which could be resolved very simply by including the cost and description fields in the \/events\/community\/list\/ view. If you feel the description field is potentially too long, then just list an excerpt so the reviewer will at least know which items to look at in more detail rather than having to step through every item to see the cost and description fields. Or you could just display a link on the items with a description and have a pop-up with the full field contents. That is what I am requesting–the basic ability to review pending events–not a new feature.<\/p>\n
BTW, you have the description field set “required” by default, which mean users have to put dummy information into the field, and then have to open every single pending item to be able to see the dummy information. IMHO this is a usability bug and should be fixed ASAP.<\/p>\n
Can you please try the use model I have described (with 100 community events), and then tell me if you think the current product is usable?<\/p>\n
Thanks
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