{"id":944764,"date":"2015-02-25T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/can-the-event-categories-be-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:31:24","slug":"can-the-event-categories-be-exclusive","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/can-the-event-categories-be-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the event categories be exclusive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using events calendar pro to keep our parish schedule organized. We have approximately 20 rooms, which we use in combination with each other. I have set up our event categories as room names, so if you need any three rooms, all you need to do is check the box for each room. (for obvious reasons I did not want to group every possible combination of rooms and add then in the venue area &#8211; this would be counter intuitive to use)<\/p>\n<p>What I am seeking is an identifier for room conflicts. With 20 rooms, our office staff is finding this to be their #1 challenge. Is there any way to perhaps gray out the categories if they are already in use during that time period, or perhaps display an error message when they are used twice during the same time?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve checked around for other plugins to help manage this, but I don&#8217;t need ticket sales, online booking, etc. We&#8217;re more of a conference facility than a hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>Creative responses welcomed and encouraged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-944764","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can the event categories be exclusive? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/can-the-event-categories-be-exclusive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can the event categories be exclusive? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m using events calendar pro to keep our parish schedule organized. 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