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Posted: July 13, 2014 at 7:38 pm


Nadeem Saeed

July 13, 2014 at 7:38 pm

Hello,

I first installed Event Espresso (v3.1.36.5P) and then Seating Chart (v.1.2.1 Alpha) to our website http://fcf.uk.com/ which is powered by WordPress 3.9.1.

I created the chart in the plugin but I’m not very happy with the outcome. Please help me sort out following issues:

1- When hovers the popup window doesn’t show seat number although I’ve entered numbers for each and every place.

2- The layout is too large horizontally and I am afraid will be off putting for the users. How can I reduce its size?

3- Is there any way to give different colours to different seating/pricing categories for better user experience?

– Why cannot a buyer buy multiple tickets without giving details for every seat they buy/reserve once the seating chart is embedded? While without seating chart Event Espresso is capable of doing this.

Our event registration page is http://fcf.uk.com/event-registration where you can see the issues I’ve raised.

Please guide me to fix the issues as soon as possible as our event is around the corner and we want to kick off our ticket sale without further delay.

Regards,

Nadeem

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Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

July 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm

Hi Nadeem,

I’m seeing some errors on your event registration page. Could you temporarily deactivate the FB plugin/social media that is on your site?

Could you post a copy of the seating chart file that you used so I can check into the seat number issue?

The selector expands based on the layout of the seats. Try using the CSS zoom option to reduce the size:

.ee_s_level
{
	clear:both;
	margin:10px auto 0px auto;
	width:98%;
    /*overflow-x: auto;
    overflow-y: hidden;*/
	zoom: 75%;
}

Different colors can be setup but you would need to manually use CSS to override the light blue colors:

#ee_s_seat_283 {
	background-color: gold;
}

The current version of the seating chart does not support selecting multiple seats at once for an attendee.


Lorenzo


Nadeem Saeed

July 15, 2014 at 4:37 am

Thanks Lorenzo. Size of the seating chart is now okay but hoovering popup window has become misaligned, it almost disappears for right hand side and bottom (upper level) seats/rows.

I’ve disabled the facebook/social media plugins.

Do I’ve to color code every seat? or There’s any way to do it in chunks/blocs?

redacted – loc

Regards,

Nadeem


Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

July 15, 2014 at 10:29 am

Hi Nadeem,

Each seat on the seat chart has a unique id assigned. You should be able to see this if you inspect one of the blue squares using Firebug or Chrome Developer tools. There isn’t a class to target a group/cluster of them.

The file that you shared looks like the core seating chart file.

Did you upload a template file to create the layout for the seating chart?

If so, could you share a copy so I can load it onto a test site? You could upload the template to a free service like Tinygrab or Getcloudapp and then link to it here.


Lorenzo


Nadeem Saeed

July 15, 2014 at 11:11 am

I didn’t upload a CSV file … I rather did it manually. I can give you login details if you would like to see it.


Nadeem Saeed

July 15, 2014 at 4:03 pm

Lorenzo … I inspected blue boxes in chrome and yes seats have their unique IDs but it’s useless if not showing up on the frontend. Please help fix the problem and also address the issue of unaligned popup that comes when one hoovers around blue boxes.

Rgds

Nadeem


Nadeem Saeed

July 16, 2014 at 3:04 pm

Is Event Espresso support on break? A customer is deserved to be helped out if things are not coming their way. I offered access to my wotrdpress admin panel so the support can see why the seat numbers aren’t appearing on the frontend but no reply so far ๐Ÿ™


Tony

  • Support Staff

July 17, 2014 at 5:07 am

Hi Nadeem,

The ‘Seat’ text is using the ‘Custom Tag’ section of the seat – http://take.ms/IeaRX

Have you added custom tags to your seats? Here is an screenshot from the example given above – http://take.ms/wsjoC

I’d be happy to take a look in the admin and review the seating chart, could you please send temporary login details using this form:

https://eventespresso.com/send-login-details/

As for the misaligned popup we are currently investigating this, it is not something we’ve seen before so currently do not have a fix. Have you altered any the seating chart code? or applied you own custom styling/sizes to the seating chart (other than what Lorenzo provided above)?


Nadeem Saeed

July 17, 2014 at 10:01 am

Thanks Tony for your reply. I followed the setting up instructions given here https://eventespresso.com/wiki/seating-chart-addon/ and assumed the custom tag has to be given only in case of ‘Placeholder’ or ‘Reserved’.

I’ve submitted login details using the form for which you provided the link.

Kind regards

Nadeem


Tony

  • Support Staff

July 18, 2014 at 3:34 am

Hi Nadeem,

I have added extra information to that wiki in regards to the Custom Tag field.

In order to display a value for ‘Seat:’ on the front end a custom tag will need to be given to each of the seats.

The reason for the misalignment is due to changing the size of the seating chart area with CSS. The JavaScript in use is using the values from when the seating chart loads, then the size is being changed with CSS.

Unfortunately I did not see the original issue, so could you remove the custom CSS so we see if there is another method to fix this please.


Nadeem Saeed

July 18, 2014 at 6:48 am

Thanks Tony. I have removed the custom CSS. Now the seat information pop up window is looking fine but the layout page has become too large … one has to scroll left right to see it. Any solution to have best of both the worlds ๐Ÿ™‚


Sidney Harrell

July 21, 2014 at 11:51 am

I logged in and created a test event so I could see the problem. It looks ok to me (in Google Chrome). It is setting the width of the popup window to match to width of the browser window. What browser are you using? Can you provide a screenshot of what you are seeing?


Nadeem Saeed

July 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm

I am also using google chrome. I don’t know how to upload screenshot here. I now have uploaded the layout in CSV rather than using the plugin’s ‘add seat’ feature … but you will see right side of the screen is yet not fitting in the screen size, though it’s far better than ‘add seat’ feature.

Other issue I am facing is that the plugin isn’t allowing seat choice for additional attendees. Please see here http://fcf.uk.com/event-registration.

I need to sort it out today so we can start selling tickets. Please help fix it. It’s getting very very late.


Tony

  • Support Staff

July 22, 2014 at 4:23 am

Hi Nadeem,

Have you modified core files at all?

There is code in place that will set the ‘Additional Attendee Registration’ field to ‘Full Registration Information’ when you are using the seating chart, it appears your event has not done this.

If you edit the event (Event Espresso -> Event Overview -> *click on the event*) you’ll find the event options on the right. Set the above field as shown here – http://take.ms/f5n30

Then update the event, each attendee should then have the ability to add a seat.


Nadeem Saeed

July 22, 2014 at 7:39 am

NO. Core files are not even touched. The additional attendee registration is already set to ‘Full Registration Information’ but it doesn’t give the option of seat selection for additional attendees. We have set a

    3.00 per cent admin fee

on each transaction but this isn’t applying on the front end either.

Please realise our critical situation, our event is on 30 August and for the last ten days we are doing nothing on the ticketing front except posting here for help. You have access to our site’s admin panel.

See our ticketing page http://fcf.uk.com/buy-ticket, it’s live now and we have to set the group registration option to NO because group registration isn’t working. We were interested to buy ‘Ticketing’ add on as well but are now apprehensive because of very slow support.


Sidney Harrell

July 22, 2014 at 8:42 am

Ok, I found the bug with the seating chart and additional attendees. It normally does not show up because the url of theregistration form is usually of the form event-registration/?ee=16
since your registration form lacks the ee=16, it is exposing the bug. I have a temporary fix for you (I don’t have ftp access, or I would add it in for you). Open up includes/functions/main.php and go to line 171, and change it from:

if (seating_chart::check_event_has_seating_chart($_REQUEST['event_id']) !== false) {

to:

if (seating_chart::check_event_has_seating_chart($event_id) !== false) {

We will add this fix to the next release of EE, so it should stay fixed the next time you update.


Nadeem Saeed

July 23, 2014 at 7:28 pm

I did that but the website page went blank (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error). And I got it back when undone the change you have advised. So here we here with no group ticketing and admin fee. Now as the ticketing is live it is observed that a seat isn’t released even if somebody reserves a seat but doesn’t complete the transaction within a prescribed time. We have set the time to one hour. Therefore, the seat continues to appearing as ‘not available’ to others. Seating chart is probably the most pricey addon and it’s not doing what it promises


Nadeem Saeed

July 24, 2014 at 10:51 am

It’s URGENT. Please fix group booking, surcharge/admin fee, non availability of seats that are reserved but not paid within a prescribed time. It’s now becoming frustrating. If you cannot fix the issues then I am afraid we will have to request for refund.


Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

July 24, 2014 at 3:38 pm

Hi,

We would like to try applying the change on our end.

Could you create and share a temporary SFTP or FTP login and share it through the following link:

https://eventespresso.com/send-login-details/


Lorenzo


Nadeem Saeed

July 24, 2014 at 4:12 pm

Done … please check

Nadeem


Sidney Harrell

July 24, 2014 at 8:31 pm

You must have had a typo when you went to change the code. I added it and the seating chart works on the additional attendee now.


Nadeem Saeed

July 25, 2014 at 10:23 am

I’d copy pasted the code … thnx and hope it will work now. I noticed that you reserved seats C-9 and N-28 but didn’t pay. But you see the seats are now unavailable to others even though they are not paid for. Please look into it as well. Rgds


Josh

  • Support Staff

July 25, 2014 at 3:11 pm

Hi Nadeem,

Can you check the settings in EE > General settings for the default payment status? That should be set to incomplete so that non-paying registrations do not hold the seats. Along with that, the test registrations can be deleted.


Nadeem Saeed

July 25, 2014 at 8:02 pm

Hi Josh … it’s already set to ‘incomplete’. I’ve provided login details to the site’s admin panel and FTP access too so EE support can see what’s the problem because I’ve set everything according to the instructions. Spare some time and see the EE settings on my website and advise me if there’s any step I didn’t follow or overstepped. Time is crucial for us.


Josh

  • Support Staff

July 28, 2014 at 11:50 am

Hi Nadeem,

I looked into this and it turns out that the seating chart will reserve seats even if they do not immediately pay. This will prevent double bookings in the case of the following scenario:

1) One person selects a seat.
2) They go to pay later.
3) In the meantime, someone else selects the same seat.
4) Now there are two registrations for the same seat.

When there’s a registration where a payment has not been made the event admin can either a) delete the unpaid registration which will also free up the seats -or- b) send a payment reminder to follow up.

I’ve removed Sidney’s test registration for seat A-6. Seats C-9 and N-28 are not being held by any registrations at the moment.


Nadeem Saeed

July 28, 2014 at 1:57 pm

Thanks Josh … but reservations that are not paid should release automatically after certain time, like I have set it to one hour, rather than deleting them manually. Documentation says EE will do the task automatically while you are saying it has to be done manually.

While ‘surcharge’ feature isn’t working though we have set it at 3% both in general setting and event settings. Please look into this too.

Regards,

Nadeem


Josh

  • Support Staff

July 28, 2014 at 10:50 pm

Hi Nadeem,

I’m afraid that the surcharge feature does not integrate with the seating chart add-on. I can recommend building the surcharge into the price of the seat. If you need help with displaying the surcharge as a separate line item we can advise how to do that.

Here’s one more detail that should be clarified about the seat release feature: The seating chart add-on will automatically release a non-registered seat selection after one hour. This means that if someone selects a seat, but does not fill out the registration form, the seat that they selected will be released after one houlr. Once they’ve registered the seat does not automatically release. This feature allows for registrations to be paid for later and also prevents overbooking.

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