Attendee vs. buyer registration information

[Richard Tandoh]

Hi,

I would like to use Event Organiser to sell tickets for a single event that has multiple ticket types, e.g. Regular, VIP. I can see from http://wp-event-organiser.com/demo/events/event/4th-thursday-every-2nd-month/ that it can support this requirement. What I can’t tell is whether it can do the following: if a buyer selects, say, two Regular tickets, can it be set to collect registration information, e.g. the name, email address and lunch option, for each attendee rather than just the buyer?

Thanks,
Richard

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Richard,

Regrettably, at this point, not. This is a feature currently in development, (albeit the early stages of). So at present there is no ETA for it either.

[Richard Tandoh]

Thanks Stephen.

That is a shame, as it rules it out for my current project.

I’ll keep an eye on your work though.

[Richard Tandoh]

Hi Stephen,

It has been 6 months since I originally asked my question, so I was wondering if this feature is any closer to being offered.

Thanks,
Richard

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Richard,

There’s a working ‘proof of concept’, but this requires some major changes in the way the front-end scripts handle tickets (currently there is no notion of a particular ticket, just quantities of ticket types). There are some other issues (largely relating to user experience) that need to be sorted out, but the technical challenges have been resolved.

Some groundwork is being done in the upcoming 1.10.0 release (currently in beta), they’ll be further changes in the 1.11.0 release, which means “attendee questions” could be in 1.12.0 (2-3 months).

Unfortunately I can’t give any guarantees of this as there are some unresolved issues as mentioned above.

[Jessie Matanky]

We are also looking to use this feature – we dont really sell different ticket types, but we are hoping to capture name and other information for each ticket bought, rather than just the person buying it.

Is there any progress on this?

[Stephen Harris]

Yes there is :). The current alpha version of 1.11.0 allows for attendee questions. The core version, however will not do this. A plugin shall be released alongside v1.11 which will expose an API for adding attendee question,

Please note there won’t be an UI for this, buttghere will be an API field for adding attendee questions. There’ll be documentation and examples released too,

v1.11.0 is still in alpha waiting on a last few features to be polished off. There remains the possibility that the above mentioned plugin will be merged into 1.11.0 but in any case it will be possible!

[Stephen Harris]

Just an update here, but v1.11.0 is in beta and will support “Attendee questions” as outlined above. It will need a few lines of code to take advantage of the feature, as there is no user interface in the customiser for it (yet).

[Greg MacKinnon]

I read through your Attendee Questions blog post. I think I now understand what you meant when you say there is currently no user interface. The questions must be established in code – there is no drag and drop as for the forms.

I want to include an Attendee Question that is a drop down for the attendee’s lunch choice. Whoever is making the purchase is making the purchase for several people who each have a different meal choice.

Is there already a snippet somewhere that would allow me to add the drop down lunch choice code in with the sample snippets provided in the blog?

Thanks

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Greg,

If you follow this tutorial and simply change the definition of the fields to:

//Define the field we want to add    
$attendee_fields = array(
    array(
        'id'   => 'attendee-lunch',
        'type' => 'select',
        'label' => 'Choose your lunch meal',
        'options' => array(
             'option-a' => 'Option A',
             'option-b' => 'Option B',
             'option-c' => 'Option C',
        ),
        'required' => true,
    ),
);

That should do it.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Greg,

If you follow this tutorial and simply change the definition of the fields to:

//Define the field we want to add    
$attendee_fields = array(
    array(
        'id'   => 'attendee-lunch',
        'type' => 'select',
        'label' => 'Choose your lunch meal',
        'options' => array(
             'option-a' => 'Option A',
             'option-b' => 'Option B',
             'option-c' => 'Option C',
        ),
        'required' => true,
    ),
);

That should do it.

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