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tsmith
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February 6, 2015 at 8:18 am
I need some calendar help.
WordPress 4.1 running Graphene theme.
I’m using EE3 Version 3.1.36.6.P, and we use the Staff Manager to assign shifts.
1) I need to find a way to have the staff names listed directly on the calendar, along with the event title, event time, and featured graphic.
2) It would be amazing to have the price listed as well. We do have multiple pricing options for events, but if the first (regular price) could be listed, that would be amazing.
3) Many of our calendar graphics appear cropped, not giving the full effect of the painting we’re featuring. Is there any way to display the full depth of the graphic?
Thank you in advance for any advice!
(PS – I’m a designer comfortable with html and css, but don’t really have a clue how to edit php and the like 😉
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 6, 2015 at 11:11 am
Hi, here is feedback on your questions:
1) I need to find a way to have the staff names listed directly on the calendar, along with the event title, event time, and featured graphic.
2) It would be amazing to have the price listed as well. We do have multiple pricing options for events, but if the first (regular price) could be listed, that would be amazing.
3) Many of our calendar graphics appear cropped, not giving the full effect of the painting we’re featuring. Is there any way to display the full depth of the graphic?
There isn’t an automatic option to add the staff names to the event tooltip (pop-up). However, you could add it to the event description and it should appear. You’ll want to add it towards the top of the event description.
Showing pricing in the tooltip isn’t available at this time.
The calendar works best when the images are uniform — that is similar in dimensions.
Could you provide a link to the calendar so we can make some suggestions?
Thanks
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Lorenzo
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tsmith
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February 6, 2015 at 11:40 am
Hi Lorenzo, Thanks for the quick reply!
I actually have tooltips off, it was difficult for many guests to navigate because we have so many graphics / events . . .
Here is the calendar: http://www.theuncorkedartist.com/warminster-2
Our paintings are different sizes, it’s not feasible to create all new graphics of the same size just for calendar display purposes, if you know what I mean.
I appreciate your response!!
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tsmith
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February 9, 2015 at 6:53 am
Basically, we need all of our staff to be able to view their schedules from the main calendars. We have 2 studios, and we are looking for an easier way to be sure all shifts are covered, by listing all assigned staff right on the calendar itself.
http://www.theuncorkedartist.com/warminster-2
http://www.theuncorkedartist.com/northwales-2
I used to hand code the calendar html myself to accomplish this, but with 2 studios now, I just don’t have the time. And since all the staff information is in the database already, it seems like there should be a way to make this happen?
Thank you so much for your input!
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Sidney Harrell
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February 9, 2015 at 12:20 pm
There is a way, but it’s a lot of expensive custom coding involved. A developer would have to sit down with the calendar code and get the data out of the database, pass it into the calendar (fullcalendar.io) as a custom field, ‘description’, which would normally display in the tooltip, but if you want it instead to show in the body of the calendar itself, a custom version of the eventRender javascript callback function would need to be written. And typically, the upfront dev costs are actually only half to a third of the actual costs that includes testing, debugging, support, and continued maintenance.
Probably the easiest path for you to go would be to make a page for each of your staff members, with [EVENT_LIST staff_id=’1′], and change the 1 to correspond. So http://www.theuncorkedartist.com/warminster-2/bob would have all of Bob’s upcoming dates.
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tsmith
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February 9, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for the advice Sidney. The Staff does already have a list of their events on their bio page, but we were hoping to have staffing for all events visible at once on the calendar. I appreciate your help.
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Dean
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February 10, 2015 at 3:45 am
Hi,
As Sidney mentioned, your particular needs would require a virtual re-write of the calendar, or preferably a separate plugin entirely .
Another option, though still involving coding, would be to create a custom shortcode that lists out the events in date order, but instead of event details it outputs associated staff.
This would be fairly easy to do from a developer standpoint, by querying the database and using the staff shortcodes ( do_shortcode() ) in the code.
It wouldn’t be a calendar as such but close to what you need (events + staff) with in my opinion significantly less development costs.
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tsmith
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February 10, 2015 at 10:03 am
Hi Dean,
Thank you! This sounds like it might work well! Who might I talk to about working on something like this for us. Is this something that the EE developers might be able to help with?
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Seth Shoultes
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February 12, 2015 at 12:23 am
Hi,
Sorry, our developers are overloaded with work at the moment. You will have to find a developer that is familiar with Event Espresso and/or WordPress.
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