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October 5, 2021 at 7:08 am

The reason we can’t use that is that we need the “event” setup to be a “live” event that can be registered for and paid …

With EE3, ‘Waitlist’ events are ‘live’ and can be registered and paid for just like a ‘normal’ event.

So, I need a live event that is active in EE3, but doesn’t automatically appear in event lists. How can we exclude a single event?

You can’t, not without working through the functions and either creating your own queries in place of the default code or filtering the results and removing the event before output.

Is there some sort of function we can specify (eg. if event ID = 123 than hide from event list for event category X)?

I’d checked this earlier and unfortunately not.

We don’t allow “waitlist” events setup to have access to members areas on registration***

Ok, so the issue is your custom code doesn’t allow you to use waitlist events to integrate with whatever else you are using throughout the site?

Could you not use a custom meta field on the event itself?

Meaning if your code is checking to see if the current event has a status of waitlist and that turns out to be true, check if the event has a meta field of ‘allow-member-registration’ for example and if so continue on through your ‘normal’ process.

That is likely going to be simplest/quickest solution for what you are trying to do. Use the EE waitlist status to hide the event from event list, it allows you to register and pay without any additional custom code through EE’s event lists and a simple event meta check is added to the custom function.

October 19, 2021 at 7:23 am

Within EE3 there is an Event Meta section:

https://monosnap.com/file/Fd74VBEaSizo4LB9ASmbOU1qUVWfdD

So you add a custom field to that section and then check it on the event within your custom logic.

You mentioned you don’t allow ‘waitlist’ events to work with your custom code, I have no idea which path you’ve chosen to take when doing that but assume your developer(s) will know.

For example, if you only pull in events with a specific status, then now include the waitlist status in that query. If you have various waitlist events but only want specific ones to work with the above you use the meta value on the event to confirm if it should work with your custom code.

If you have the event_id you can do something like:

$event_meta = $event_meta = event_espresso_get_event_meta($event_id);
if( $event_meta['some_custom_key'] == true ) {
   // Do you custom code.
}

I assume that field once added then needs to be added to our custom functions logic to check and “if paid, then grant access”?

Correct, although I have no idea what your code is doing here, your developer should be able to implement this.