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[Michael Waugaman]

Yes, client was nervous about missing bookings so we removed form from public view to avoid confusion. Your bookings came thru fine and I am now aware of other issues on the server that were likely culprit.

Thanks for the quick response – realise that it was a vague request!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Michael

I checked that page, and the booking form had been commented out <!-- ... --> (perhaps this was deliberate). Anyway, I uncommented the form in my browser and was able to test this, and it worked as expected. (So you may see an offline booking from me).

I also made a PayPal booking (which I did not complete), with booking ID 29259.

Depending on the settings you may/may not receive an e-mail regarding the above. If these don’t appear in the bookings page, then there may be a conflict with a another plug-in installed…

which suddenly stopped working yesterday

I would start looking at any changes made to the site just prior to the booking form not working. Any settings changed / plug-ins added or updated etc.

we have recently moved servers with an older version of EO pro which suddenly stopped working yesterday. Have since upgraded to sparkling new EO Pro but though booking form is showing, nothing happens on submit … no email, no record in database ….. any ideas where to start looking?

example at http://stjohnschambers.co.uk/events/stress-work/

[Stephen Harris]

For your case, it sounds like (2) or maybe (3) would be best. If it’s just the booking form, you don’t want to worry about ensuring that you’ve copied the calendar stylesheet across properly (for example).

(1) is really reserved for theme developers you want complete control over the stylesheets, because they’re designing a theme for Event Organiser. It’s a bit overkill if you just want to tweak stuff.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Sue,

Basically, I’d like to Bootstrap it up the wazoo (but I realise that this may not be possible or practical).

On the contrary, EO & EO Pro are designed so that themes can modify the look relatively easily.I’d avoid editing the plug-in stylesheet directly, but there are a number of options. Let me list them here before recommending one…

1) Disabling plug-in styelsheets
You can disable the plug-in stylesheet (see Settings > Event Organiser > General) and then copy the contents of any required front-end stylesheets to your theme’s style.css (i.e. EO & EO Pro’s frontend stylesheets and fullcalendar.css).

You can get the theme to forcibly disable the plug-in’s front-end stylesheet via

 add_filter( 'option_eventorganiser_options', 'mytheme_disable_eventorganiser_css' );
 function mytheme_disable_eventorganiser_css( $options ){
    $options['disable_css'] = 1;
    return $options;
 }

(this is handy if you want to prevent an admin from accidentally enabling them again)

Pro: You have complete freedom to edit them. Your site makes up to three fewer HTTP requests (so loads faster)
Con: You have a much larger/unwieldy theme stylesheet

2) Replace the stylesheets
Stylesheets are registered with a particular location (source). You can de-register them, and then re-register them to a location in your theme.

add_action( 'init', 'mytheme_eo_pro_register_scripts', 100 );
function mytheme_eo_pro_register_scripts() {
    //de-register default Pro stylesheet
    wp_deregister_style( 'eo_pro_frontend' ); 
    //This assumes your replace stylesheet is in eo-pro.css in the root
    //of your theme.
    wp_register_style( 'eo_pro_frontend', get_template_directory_uri() . '/eo-pro.css' );
}

Pro: You can just replace the stylesheets you need to
Con: You are not reducing the number of HTTP requests (see above).

3) Add the styling to your theme’s style.css
Since plug-in stylesheets load later, they can take often take precedence. This means you might need to add !important to the stylesheet changes. But otherwise this is by far the simplest solution

Pro: Simple, ideal for a few/minor changes
Con: Requires the use of !important

Aside
Sometimes you just need to insert the appropriate HTML classes into the booking form (e.g. buttons / alerts / form elements) and your theme will automatically style them. There are some UI options for adding stylesheets, but theme’s can do it automatically too. Here’s a gist example of getting the booking form to look native to pretty much any bootstrap based theme: https://gist.github.com/stephenharris/ff5091917ff06de4ce06

I’m a bit hazy on what I should either edit or add (to say, a custom style sheet) to style up my booking form.

I’d like to maybe add some buttony goodness, as well as make the fields and fonts a teensy bit bigger. I’d even like to make the asterisk for mandatory fields a bit…redder to make it stand out. Basically, I’d like to Bootstrap it up the wazoo (but I realise that this may not be possible or practical).

Do I edit the EO style sheet (which I assume would get overwritten in an update), or add a custom style sheet?

Also, it’s good to be back with the Pro version! Phew.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Jef,

1) I’ll need to take another look at this. The booking form (javascript) has been re-factored a couple of times and does a better job of separating business logic from the form itself. This should make this easier to achieve.

2) This has been requested before, albeit it in a slightly less workable form. They wanted a waiting list where the first person would get the ticket if there were any vacancies. There are problems with this relating to payment collection (or pre-collection, and refunds) as well as what to do if the next person on the list wants 2 tickets, but only 1 space is available (do you skip them?).

But a blanket e-mail to all interested parties to the effect of “first come first served” navigates around those problems.

This is already doable, but I’m not sure the demand is there to warrant implementing it in the plug-in. (I am, however, available if you require this sort of feature).

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Andrew,

I’m terribly sorry – I had received your e-mail and had looked into the possibility of the results of the booking form being displayed on an alternative page. (I had thought I had replied to you, but I can’t find the e-mail now).

I’ve checked your account and you should be able to access the forums, I’ll look into why this is the case.

Regarding posting to another page, unfortunately this isn’t (easily) achievable. The search form posts to the current page: (includes/shortcodes.php, line 181)

<form action="'.get_permalink().'" method="get">

Changing the action attribute to an alternative action would post the form to the desired page, however you would need to parse the query and display the results yourself. The results are (by default) displayed using the search-event-list.php template, and the query is parsed at includes/shortcodes.php, lines 367-391.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Sue,

Sorry to make you cross post 🙂

In 1.6.3 it isn’t possible. It is in 1.9.5 (and presumably 1.9.* I’ve not checked) with the following code

 add_action( 'eventorganiser_get_event_booking_form', 'booking_form_require_last_name', 10, 2 );
 function booking_form_require_last_name( $form, $event_id ){

     $name = $form->get_element( "name" );
     $name->set( 'lname_required', true );

 }

and in 2.10.0 there’ll be a UI option for this.

Hello Stephen,

There are 2 features to enhance the user experience that I would like to see implemented in the front end event booking form.

1.- We already talked about it a couple of years ago : When a ticket for an event is fully booked, it actually disappears from the booking form. I would like to have the option to keep it displayed but with the “SOLD OUT” mention instead of the ticket selection field.

2.- I believe this could be beneficial to add a feature in this form when a ticket is sold out to propose a “Email me if a ticket is released”. I regularly have people booking free events but with limited seats who are canceling their registration before the event to release their place. This would allow people who want to participate to an event to be informed ba email that a seat is released.

all the best!

Jef

Sorry, I know this is the wrong forum, but my subscription has expired (I’ve come from the WP forums).

I’m using Pro 1.6.3. plus 2.11.1

I’m trying to add tickets to an event. By default, it gives me first & last names and email. However, only first name and email are mandatory. How can I make the last name mandatory, or better yet, turn off those fields and add my own advanced fields instead?

[cinzia rascazzo]

Hi Stephen,
thank you so much! Your support is great and is making my life so much easier! This is the best plugin i could have bought and i will def recommend it to anybody looking for something super high quality!

I have hopefully one last question for you……if you are still patient with me!

It is still regarding the multiple day events.
As you know i am trying to implement a multiselect day on the calendar so that my customers can select all days when the event takes place.
So for example on this page: my events last 7 days:
http://www.italycookingcourses.com/events/7-day-cooking-wine-tours/
i got the information about the 7 days already. it is written in the custom fields.
but this would be very useful for people booking my multiple day programs to know until which day the program lasts

it looks like this extension from multidatespickr could make the job, if i knew how to implement this extension into your plugin.
http://multidatespickr.sourceforge.net/#simple-select-days-range-demo

may be you could help me with this. i am not able to do it ….

once again thank you so much for your great support!
cinzia

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Dariusz,

No – but you can display information to the admin on the bookings admin page without adding it to the booking form at all.

This simply involves registering a metabox:

//Register metabox
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_event_page_bookings', 'my_register_bookings_metabox' );  
function my_register_bookings_metabox(){
    add_meta_box( 'my-metabox-id', 'My Metabox', 'my_metabox_callback' );
}

//Metabox callback
function my_metabox_callback( $booking ){
    echo "Metabox content for {$booking->ID}";
}

Details on add_meta_box() can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box

I run events that take place several times per year.
I set them up as recurring events however each date has different availability (as people just join one specific date).

How can I organize events with your plugin to have the following working?
1) Admin needs to create several series of recurring events ( about 200 x 20 for a year ).
(Each recurrence should be treated as separate event? )

2) User must see aggregated calendar for particular series.

3) Booking Form should have a calendar that has all events aggregated ( one series, or category ).

4) User should see how many free spaces are available when he selects event from an aggregated calendar.

5) Some events types takes 1, 3, 4 or 7 days – is it possible to present that in a calendar?

6) If event takes 7 days – it takes full 7 days, not 7 days day by day, that user could pick up interesting days.

7) Calendar on booking form should select/highlight days according to the event length (not day by day)

1. Admin calendar should aggregate everything so it would be possible to plan a day easily based on booking that are made.

Thank you for your answer
Cinzia

Hi.

I am working on an integration between Woocommerce and Eventsorganiser Pro. For this purpose, I need to be able to show some information from Woocommerce to the admin only when the admin is viewing the booking (in the backend), but hide this information for users making the booking (in the frontend).

Is there any way of hiding form fields on the booking form in the frontend only?

Rgds,
Dariusz