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July 7, 2016 at 2:32 pm

Hi Guys

The front end scanner shortcode [ESPRESSO_BARCODE_SCANNER] is not really usable where you want attendees to do self-service scanning primarily because the selection interface remains. Not only is it distracting/intrusive for attendees, those on touch screen kiosks could change the selection and cause all sorts of issues.

I guess in the short term I can hide it via JS & CSS but that will open the next challenge of how to select the event and datetime in the first place.

I think the shortcode could be extended slightly and become much more useful with some additional parameters:
– parameter for event id
– parameter for datetime id
– parameter for mode of function
– parameter to choose to hide the selection interface

With these elements in place we would be able to make a series of pages – each with a shortcode configured for a particular datetime. Then on the big day you would merely need to ensure each kiosk was pointing to the right page.

This makes sense to me!

Best
M