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RJG
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April 5, 2016 at 10:32 am
Hello Event Espresso and community,
I’d like to set up a form that I can add to an event’s page and another to a stand-alone page where vendors, artists and other non-attendees could “apply” or submit their info.
once submitted, on the backend, I’d like to be able to approve them or reject them with comments which would notify the applicant.
Once approved, I’d like to be able to leave them as an approved vendor or assigned them to events.
My questions are:
1) Is that currently possible or how much of that is possible from what we have?
2) Would you suggest what I would need to do to set this up if it’s not available out of the box?
3) Has anyone done anything like it to the best of your knowledge and again, do you have a link please?
thank you very much everyone:
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Tony
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April 6, 2016 at 3:10 am
Hi there,
If I understand this correctly it sounds like you want to separate the registration from events, so users can register and then you can assign them to a specific event, is that correct? If so that’s currently not possible.
What you can do is setup an event to have a default registration status of ‘Not Approved’, users can register onto this event but EE will stop them before they reach the payment options. The admin can then ‘Approve’ the registration to allow for payment (you will actually want to set the registration to ‘Pending Payment’ at this point).
Would that work?
Can you provide the use case you are looking to use this for? We may be able to provide additional options, however to answer you questions:
1) Is that currently possible or how much of that is possible from what we have?
Not if I understand the above and you want to separate registrations to an event into individual registrations you apply to events on approval. They are already applied to the event your register on, but you can change the registration status.
Also currently there is no simple method to providing comments on Approval/Non-Approval by the admin without sending an additional message with those comments.
2) Would you suggest what I would need to do to set this up if it’s not available out of the box?
If you can provide the use case this is for we should be able to provide steps that can be used within EE currently.
3) Has anyone done anything like it to the best of your knowledge and again, do you have a link please?
Not in the way you have requested, pre approval is available within EE and we have seen plenty of users using it however the steps for that method are:
Create your event.
Set that event to ‘Not Approved’
User registers onto said event and it told they are awaiting approval.
Admin approves registration.
User receives email with a link they can use to pay.
Registration then applies to that events sold values once payment is complete.
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RJG
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April 10, 2016 at 10:27 pm
Hello Tony,
Thank you for attempting to answer my questions. I think it needs more clarification. I am not interested in having users register differently, I’d like to create a registration path for vendors.
Here is an example of a scenario:
Let’s say I am organizing an art show, users are the attending puic, 5hey would pay for admission, but let’s say that i am planning to have artists displaying their art and I’dime to be able to allow them to register as vendors but also to submit their art for approval, I want something which allows me to do that.
Is that clearer?
It’s like you create a conference and want speakers to be able to register.
Thank you.
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Tony
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April 11, 2016 at 12:25 pm
So rather than have them register onto the Event itself with a ticket, you could use the EE4 People Add-on to assign users as speakers within an event.
You would need to use some form of membership plugin to create the artists, maybe have them also create a type of portfolio on your site that you can review so you know which events suit which artists and assign them to the event.
Is that what your looking for?
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RJG
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April 11, 2016 at 12:42 pm
Hello Tony,
I’m sorry if I”m being unclear. Maybe it’s the language that’s confusing me. To me, the users are the attendees. Vendors, artists, etc… are everyone else.
I’d like to allow them to “apply” or “submit a registration” form to be considered for an event or just to be added to our list of vendors. So that when I organize event X if I need a piano player I can go in that list and assign one to an event. or if I organize event Y and publish the event, in addition to attendees applying to go to the event as spectators, a vendor can apply or register (subject to approval) to sell an item, provide a service or perform, etc…
After typing everything above, it seems that The People Add-on would work for what I have in mind. My question is whether or not, the people Add-on has an external interface or form or do I have to manually type everything myself? b
Nevertheless, you’re right. That is what I am trying to do. Any advice please?
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Tony
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April 11, 2016 at 2:54 pm
My question is whether or not, the people Add-on has an external interface or form or do I have to manually type everything myself?
You mean for the vendors to apply to actually be vendors?
If so then No, there is no front end functionality within EE4 for that. The People Add-on basically allows you to assigned users to be a type of ‘person’ within an event, this can be speakers, artists, etc. How you get those users into your site is up to you, you can use one of the many membership plugins available such as S2 Member or Ultimate Member, or you can use a simple contact form using Contact Form 7 and manually create the users.
EE was to designed to exclude any typr of member management type functionality to allow you to use whichever plugin you are familiar with/prefer.
Any advice please?
If it was me I’d go with a membership plugin and create a sign up page that vendors needed to provide all of their details within and then have them create a portfolio type section for their account. Then when they wanted to become a vendor for an event have them register onto a ‘member only ticket’ that you could see. If you approve of the registration you edit the event and assign them as a vendor using the people add-on.
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RJG
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April 11, 2016 at 4:18 pm
Thank you very much Tony, this is very useful.
Speaking of forms, did we do much with the Gravity form? I remember a discussion around that last year but I don’t know if EE had decided on it?
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Tony
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April 12, 2016 at 4:05 am
Do you mean integrating with Gravity forms for the registration form?
We have Gravity Forms integration on our roadmap here:
https://trello.com/c/7NxxkbJW/3-gravity-forms-integration
Please feel free to add your vote and/or any comments to that feature request as we will be using the board to prioritize development.
However as it stands we have not made any changes towards integrating with gravity forms at this time.
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RJG
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April 15, 2016 at 4:13 pm
Thank you Tony. I will.
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