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September 1, 2021 at 4:40 am

Hi Tony,

thank you for the information. For this purposes, we have a second plugin but like other plugin I was always missing features that event espresso has. The only reason against event espresso in these scenario was the time afford of the input for that event, especially if there were multiple days. I recently found an chrome extension which can search and replace text in forms. That way I only need one event as a template and can duplicate it and change the date via the chrome extension.

Thank you for the suggestion of the separation of days. This way I can show more easily one what day there free spots.

I haven’t got into ajax as a self-taught-developer because the technical part is only a small part of my job. So far I just hide the info (display:none) and show the selected items with javascript again. But for the experience of the user, ajax would be the better solution.

Thank you also for the warning with the “max_input_vars”. We ran in that already a time ago and fortunately have a dedicated server so we could changed that ourselves.

I have one followup question, which is bothering me.
Every datetime (time slot) should have 3 spots. Because the event itself is an 1 on 1 setting, every spot/attendee get an MS Teams Link for that event.
For the previous events (group with one room) I added a custom field to that event and made a shortcode in the message which takes that custom field. That way every event has its own participation link.
For the scenario with 3 rooms I have two approaches:
1. I make 3 custom fields with individuals room link and have 3 spots per datetime. I build a logic that checks how many attendees are already connected that specific datetime and if there is an attendee it will get the second custom field link and if there are two it gets the third.
The problem I see with this approach is, that it would work great until somebody has to cancel his or her appointment and there is already second attendee for that datetime. I don’t see a logic that wouldn’t create a double booking for a room.
Do you see a simple solution for that? Maybe could think of an ID that I could check for that purpose.
2. The second approach is to have 3 identical events with one spot per datetime. Every event has one custom field with a link. In the custom output it would check if the datetime is available. If not it goes to the same datetime of the next event.

I like the first approach a lot more, but the logic must be bulletproof.

I am thankful for every information. And thank you for the great support. In my opinion event espresso is the best time booking product for wordpress.

Beste Grüße (best regards)
Thomas

September 2, 2021 at 6:18 am

Thank you for your help. And I am sorry for the confusion. As I was reading your answer, I got a new idea for the possible solution.

Each datetime hast 3 available spots and is connected to 3 Tickets. A Ticket has one available spot and contains the MS Teams link in the description of the ticket. So each event has approx 32 datetimes and 96 tickets.

My only concern is the amount of tickets per event. Are there any limitation for the ticket count or will 96 tickets cause any other negative effect?

September 9, 2021 at 4:08 am

Hi Tony,

my client changed the schedule a bit, so I have “only” 60 Tickets. I had to put up the max_input_vars quit a bit but it is working really great and I am happy that I can use event espresso for those kinds of project from now on.

I have a question for the form. What is the “row” value needed for? Is it essential for submitting the form?
<input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-rows-'.$event_id.'" value="'.$ticket_rows.'">

For those who are interested and would like a starting point, here is how it looks like and the first draft of the code.

function ee_ticketselector_button ($event_url, $event_id, $ticket_id, $ticket_rows){
  $email_input_id = time().'.'.rand(1000,9999);
  return '
  <form method="POST" action="'.$event_url.'" name="ticket-selector-form-'.$event_id.'">
        <input type="hidden" name="ee" value="process_ticket_selections">
        
        <input type="hidden" name="noheader" value="true">
        <input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-return-url-'.$event_id.'" value="'.$event_url.'#tkt-slctr-tbl-'.$event_id.'">
        <input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-rows-'.$event_id.'" value="'.$ticket_rows.'">
        <input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-max-atndz-'.$event_id.'" value="1">
        <input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-event-id" value="'.$event_id.'">

        <input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-qty-'.$event_id.'[]" value="1">
        <input type="hidden" name="tkt-slctr-ticket-id-'.$event_id.'[]" value="'.$ticket_id.'">

        <input style="display:none" type="email" id="tkt-slctr-request-processor-email-'.$email_input_id.'" name="tkt-slctr-request-processor-email" value="">
        <input id="ticket-selector-submit-'.$event_id.'-btn" class="" type="submit" value="Termin buchen" data-ee-disable-after-recaptcha="true">
    </form>';
}

function check_event_datetime_ticket($var) {	
  if ($var->get('TKT_sold') == 0 && $var->reserved() == 0) {
    return true;
  } 
}

//* Adds table with datetimes after content
add_action('AHEE_event_details_after_the_content', 'custom_ticket_selector_gt');
function custom_ticket_selector_gt() {
  global $post;
  $get_event_tags = array_map(function($o) { return $o->name ;}, get_the_tags() );
 
  if (in_array('GT', $get_event_tags )) {
    
    $event = EEH_Event_View::get_event();
    $event_datetimes = $event->datetimes_in_chronological_order();
    $event_id = $post->ID;
    $event_ticket_count = $event->tickets_on_sale();
    $seats_available = $event->spaces_remaining() > 0 ? true : false ;
    $loop_index = 1;

    echo '<table>';
      foreach ($event_datetimes as $event_datetime_key => $event_datetime) {
        if ($seats_available) {
          if ($event_datetime->spaces_remaining() > 0) {
            $tickets_filtered = reset(array_filter($event_datetime->tickets(), 'check_event_datetime_ticket'));
            $registration_message = ee_ticketselector_button ($event->get_permalink(), $event_id, $tickets_filtered->ID(), $event_ticket_count);
          } else {
            $registration_message = 'Ausgebucht';
          }
        } else {
          $registration_message = 'Ausgebucht';
        }
        
        if ($loop_index % 2 != 0) {
          echo '<tr class="ee_gt_table_tr"> <td class="ee_gt_table_clock"><span class="ee_gt_table_clock_hour">'.$event_datetime->start_time('G').'</span><span class="">00</span></td> <td id="" class="ee_gt_table_td"><div id="" class="ee_gt_table_datetime">';
        }
        echo  '<div id="" class="ee_gt_table_datetime_child">
                <div id="" class="">
                  <span class="dashicons dashicons-clock"></span><span class="">'.$event_datetime->start_time('G:i').' - '.$event_datetime->end_time().' Uhr </span></div><div id="" class="ee_gt_table_datetime_button"><span>'.$registration_message.'</span>
                </div>
              </div>';
        if ($loop_index % 2 == 0) {
          echo '</div></td></tr>';
        }
        $loop_index++;
      }
    echo '</table>';

    echo '
          <style type="text/css">

            .event-datetimes, .post-navigation{
              display: none !important;
            }

            .ee_gt_table_tr{
              margin-bottom: 10px;
              padding-bottom: :   10px !important;
            }
            
            .ee_gt_table_td{
              padding:   0px !important;
            }

            .ee_gt_table_clock{
              vertical-align: top;
              margin: 0px;
              padding:0px;
              padding-left: 5px;
            }

            .ee_gt_table_clock_hour{
              font-size: 30px;
              font-weight: normal;
            }

            .ee_gt_table_datetime{
              display: flex;
              flex-flow: row wrap;
              justify-content: space-around;
              align-items: center;
              min-width: 400px;
              margin:   10 !important;
              margin-bottom: 10px;
            }

            .ee_gt_table_datetime_child {
              display: flex;
              flex-flow: row wrap;
              justify-content: space-between;
              align-items: center;
              min-width: 400px;
              min-height: 57px !important;
              background-color: #F0F0F0;
              margin-top:   10px;
              margin-left:   10px;
              margin-right:   10px;
              padding: 10px;
            }

            .ee_gt_table_datetime_button {
              min-width: 190px;
              text-align: center;
            }
            </style>
    ';  
  }
}