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Dominic Greene
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February 10, 2014 at 4:17 am
Dear Event Espresso staff,
When creating an event in Event Espresso 4, can you create email tickets or printable tickets with a barcode or any scannable option?
Thanks for your time.
Kind regards,
Dominic
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Dominic Greene
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February 10, 2014 at 4:20 am
Ps. If Event Espresso 3 is required, can one pay the difference between a EE4 Personal License to get an EE3 Personal License?
Thanks for your time.
Kind regards,
Dominic
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Dominic Greene
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February 10, 2014 at 4:38 am
To detail further, we are looking to have any form of scannable barcode on our tickets so we can create an offline scanning option for an upcoming festival. We would scan these codes from the EE database and use that information at the festival checkin / entry.
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Dominic Greene
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February 10, 2014 at 4:44 am
Another question; would it be possible to use the QR code created by the Ticketing addon in EE3 in an offline scanning solution? We would need to extract this QR code from the database and we could then create an offline scanning solution for ticketing checkin / entry.
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Dean
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February 10, 2014 at 5:11 am
Hi Dominic,
Event Espresso Ticketing add on uses QR codes on the tickets which can be scanned by the mobile app.
It DOES require an internet connection though, as it needs to communicate with the website. There is currently no offline functionality.
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Dominic Greene
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February 11, 2014 at 2:32 am
Would it be possible for the people on my end to create an offline scanner that utilises the QR codes on EE3 tickets? Say if we extracted the QR code and information from the EE database and created an offline scanner of our own?
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Dean
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February 11, 2014 at 2:54 am
Hi,
Possible? Probably. It wouldn’t be easy though as you would also need to create an app that can read it and send the data back to the site at some point too.
I have raised this for discussion internally, but I cannot guarantee it is something we will implement.
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Dominic Greene
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February 11, 2014 at 4:52 am
What if that information (QR code, name of ticket holder, type of ticket, time frame, etc) was put in an external database, we then created an application for a computer, set up an offline QR code scanner and linked it for checking in. This scanner would not have to contact the site but our own database on a local machine. Would be a bit to set up though does it sound possible (extracting the QR code from databases and other info)?
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Josh
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February 11, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Hi Dominic,
I’ve been able to test out our mobile apps on using my local (MAMP) install by making a few tweaks, so it’s possible to do remote scanning with no internet connection. The steps to do this would be (roughly) :
1. Sync the live server to a local dev server on a laptop. (Copy the files and sync the database using something like WP migrate db pro.)
2. Take the laptop and a wifi router and set up a wifi network on location.
3. Change the WP site and blog url from “localhost” to the laptop’s network IP address. The new site/blog address will look something like http://10.0.1.12/devsite/
4. connect the apps to the wifi network, log in on the app using the local site’s laptop network IP-based address as the endpoint url.
5. scan tickets
6. When the event is done, sync the data back “up” to the live site that lives on a real web server using the data migration plugin.
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