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September 4, 2012 at 11:08 am

@Mark

I do have the Groupon module installed, but when trying to access the settings via the WP admin by clicking on, ‘Groupon Codes’, I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function event_espresso_display_right_column() in //wp-content/plugins/espresso-groupons/groupons_admin_page.php on line 248

Groupon Integration has not been set up for 3.2 (yet).

I get a whole bunch of errors on the payments setting page. Files can’t be found. See attached screenshot. It seems as though I was able to activate and configure PayPal however.

Is this a fresh install or did you install on top of an old/existing version of Event Espresso? There shouldn’t be that many different gateways in 3.2. Not all of the gateways have been built yet. If you tried installing on top of an existing Event Espresso installation or on a site that had previously had Event Espresso installed, you will not be able to use 3.2. It needs to be installed on a fresh server. You should also check your /wp-content/uploads/espresso/gateways to make sure you don’t have anything in there. However, again, there’s no reason you should have anything in the gateways folder in the uploads if this was a fresh install.

Event doesn’t show up, bunch of code is displayed. Best to just show: http://competition101.com/event-registration/?event_slug=introduction-to-racing-paved-oval-11162012

Based on the fact that the events are showing now, I’m guessing you didn’t test 3.2 on a fresh site but rather on a site that already had Event Espresso. I want to express again that 3.2 cannot be used on a site that was previously running Event Espresso. This is only during the pre-release testing phase — when we release the final version, there will be update scripts to assist with the upgrade process but these have not been written yet (and aren’t likely to be written until the later stages of development). Using Event Espresso on an existing install will likely break your existing install (as you have seen).

@Even

I’m also confused as to whether or not creating several “Dates & Times” in the same event will make it the same as a recurrence.

Sort of. It will be an event that occurs on different dates and times. Previous versions allowed events to have additional times, but not different dates. It’s not specifically a recurrence but it can be used as one. As to displaying the additional dates and times, there may still be work coming for the event list, but those templates should be able to be edited to display those times.

Where do you assign waitlist events now? I can’t find it.

That may not have been added yet.

I haven’t installed (nor do I plan to install) the Multiple Events Registration plugin, so I’m a bit disappointed that the registration process now seems shopping cart-based out-of-the-box.

It’s not. It definitely pulls that kind of interface in from previous versions of Multi Event Registration, but Multi Event Registration 2.0 is going to add an actual shopping cart where many events can be saved as someone navigates throughout the site. The built-in Event Espresso event registration will not have this cart functionality, but they are both using the same registration/checkout process. It’s a change, but we’re trying to make the registration process easier and more familiar for end users and what people are most used to is a standard e-commerce checkout process.

Where do you colour-code the event calendar by categories now?

That needs to be added back in to 3.2.

I like most of the changes (the ones that work), but at this point I feel it’s basically pre-alpha. Which is fine.

Well, it’s pre-beta, which traditionally is when the software is made available. There will be one more alpha release as we start adding the essential components back in, and then 2 planned beta releases (and possibly more as we start getting into the real bugfixing stage before the release candidate(s)).

• This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by Chris Reynolds.

September 7, 2012 at 3:22 pm

@Even

I expected the most essential part of the plugin – registering for an event – to work even in an alpha release

Registering for an event should be working. We made it a point to hold off on releasing the first alpha before people could actually do a registration. What part of the registration process is not working for you?

Will it be possible to assign waitlists to each and every date&time, even without separate ID’s?

I just asked our lead developer and this wasn’t something he wasn’t thinking about initially, but he is now and we may be able to integrate the overflows into the new date/times so you could set one of your date/times as an overflow event. However, this may not make it into 3.2. It may come in an update down the road.

if I can use, say, a custom file to avoid the overly shopping-esque terms, I’m sure I’ll be happy

Yes, you should be able to do that. In fact, you can start hacking away at the templates now if you want to start playing with it. That’s one of the reasons we wanted to pre-release the plugin at this stage, so developers can start taking a look at the template files and begin customizing them for their sites so they are ready to go when we release 3.2.

@pgray

First whether you need the Surcharge field in the event Overview screen anymore as it’s largely replaced by the excellent new pricing module?

Good point, we will have to look into whether that’s still needed.

could we have ‘timeless’ events? One thing I sell in addition to training conferences is online webinars and they are downloadble on a permanent basis following launch – so they don’t have a date – but EE can sell them for me fine it just confuses customers when they see a date.

Those aren’t really events then. Those are more like products (since you’re selling access to a specific webcast). Event Espresso doesn’t currently support products very well, but it’s something that we should be able to revisit after 3.2 is released because much of the framework will be there.

I like the new pricing and discount system – at some point in the future it would be nice to have a ‘buy one get one free/x£ or x% off’ or “second/third booking half price” type option? (and if possible can discounts be a. cumulative (ie you can have an early bird plus a multi-booking) and b. exclusive (ie you only get one).

We’ve been working on this as part of the Volume Discounts add-on. You can download a pre-release of that (for 3.1.x) here: https://eventespresso.com/support/pre-release-downloads/

@Chris

Events from version 3.1.25 don’t show up in v3.2.a.1

You shouldn’t be installing 3.2 on top of 3.1.25 anyway (in fact, I am uploading a version today that displays a warning and doesn’t let you use the plugin if you’re trying to use it on a site that previously had Event Espresso installed). As stated above, 3.2 does not have any of the update scripts to convert events from 3.1.x to use in 3.2 and could actually damage your 3.1.x installation. This is why we’ve made it part of the form to download that you acknowledge that you will use it on a fresh installation.

Themeroller on the calendar highlights a day every-month like its today.

That’s a bug in the current version of the calendar. It’s not a 3.2 issue. There is a ticket open to address this.

Paypal pro payment hangs after step 2
registration step one has no fields to enter details like name and what not.

These two things may be related (e.g. if there are no fields in step one then you would not be able to complete the registration/payment in step 2. Again, though, this might be a product of having installed 3.2 on top of 3.1.25.

There is no event widget showing on the WordPress widgets screen, only the calendar widget is there.

The widget has not been built yet.

@emoria

I haven’t reviewed this alpha yet but I’d like to see better handling of reoccurring events for situations where a program with multiple days are schedule and registration is for all classes in a series.

We will need to rewrite REM after we release 3.2, so this will be something we can be thinking about when we work on that.

It be nice to have a payment option to break payments up “think tuition” where your registered after the first partial payment (amount configurable by admin) and then invoiced or can return to you account to make further payments.

Partial payments is something we plan on working on after we release 3.2 and it will be much easier to handle with the new registration/payment system.

AND one last wish. Should be pretty simple; to be able to add a line item labeled whatever you want instead of just “surcharge”

You can do this now in the General Settings page in 3.1.x.