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Mike Wilson
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March 22, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Hi,
WordPress 3.8.1
EE4 – New Installation
Not live, develoment only
I’m currently testing EE4 for use in our production environment. I love the new UI and features, but have some questions. I tried searching, but couldn’t find relevant answers and the incomplete documentation is a bit confusing.
I need to be able to create some events that
1. Do not require registration or ticket purchases – e.g free and promotional only.
In some cases I may be promoting a free event that does not require registration of any kind. I just want to display all of the relevant information.
EE4: No Registration and Alternate Registration Process
2. Do require a ticket purchase and registration, but externally.
In some cases I may be listing the event information, but directing the user elsewhere (off site) for registration in cases where I am just promoting an event to my users, but not actually managing the event or registrations directly. I’d like to display the cost, if any, and redirect the user to the appropriate site to register when the “Register Now” button is clicked.
3. Do require a ticket purchase, but via an alternative internal registration process – e.g. not via the EE registration/purchase process
Finally, in some cases I may be listing events that may or may not be free, but do require registration via an alternate internal system. In these cases I’d like to display the event information, including costs, but redirect the user to a different registration process when the “Register Now” button is clicked.
The EE4 Docs ( https://eventespresso.com/version/ee4/ ) state there is a ‘Display Registration Form’ setting under ‘Registration Options’, however I’m not seeing this in the UI. I did notice in testing that if I set the “Maximum number of tickets allowed per order for this event:” option to 0, the ‘register’ button disappears; however, the ticket information remains, which seems somewhat ambiguous to me.
To facilitate alternative registration processes, I tried providing an URL under the ‘Alternate Registration Page’ option, but when clicking the register now button on the front-end event listing page, I get the standard EE registration form rather than being redirected as intended.
Are there options in EE4 that I’m just overlooking that would facilitate these goals? If not, is there a way to modify the templates given certain criteria? For example, if the ticket price is free can conditionally remove the ticket information and registration button from a template in some way?
I believe most of these issues can be solved with the “Alternate Registration Page” option if it was working. I’ll appreciate any suggestions or guidance on how to achieve these goals.
Thank you,
– Mike
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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March 22, 2014 at 6:23 pm
Hi Mike,
1) You can hide the ticket selector and registration area for certain events by using CSS. The following example will hide this information for the events with an ID of 150 and 151
.postid-151 .event-tickets, .postid-150 .event-tickets {display:none;}
2 & 3) This feature (alternate registration URL) is currently broken and will be fixed in a future version of Event Espresso
Also, the registration form toggle will also return in an upcoming release of Event Espresso.
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Lorenzo
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Mike Wilson
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March 23, 2014 at 3:25 pm
1. Hiding with CSS doesn’t seem like a very manageable approach for individual events.
2 & 3. Do you have an estimated time for these fixes? ‘Future version’ is pretty open ended.
Is there a filter available to completely remove the ticket/registration module?
Also is there any release date set for 4.2? I’ll also need the ability to display expired/past events since we often add resources and more content after an event has taken place – e.g. presentations, documents, etc.
I’m just trying to get a handle on how viable EE4 is for our needs… I thought it was a good fit based on documentation, but it seems at this point that was a bit misleading.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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March 23, 2014 at 6:04 pm
Hi Mike,
The CSS method was an solution for the current version of Event Espresso 4 beta.
EE 4.2 addresses these concerns and we are testing internally. Unfortunately, I don’t have an exact release date.
The ticket selector option is in EE 4.2 and you can toggle this on or off on a per event basis.
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Lorenzo
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Brian Purkiss
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April 3, 2014 at 3:23 am
+1 for the ability to have events with no registration.
Sometimes my events will have registration, but often these are simply promoting events handled by other sites.
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