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February 24, 2014 at 10:46 am

Hi Florian,

With #1 and #3, the seating chart price always overrides or takes precedence over a prices that’s set in the event editor.

With #2 there should be a “Seats” link when you hover over the seating chart’s name. If there’s not a seats link, then you can click the + Add Seat tab to add a seat.

When you click on Seats it will take you to a list of seats where you can click edit and edit the prices.

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/seating-chart/

February 24, 2014 at 12:31 pm

Hi Florian,

You’ll need to make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your web browser in order to see the Seats link.

> Can I omit the Seat prices so it takes the Event defined prices ?

No. You’ll need to define the seat prices in the seating chart.

> can I edit the current event tempalte so that the View Seating Chart link is more explicit (blue underligned instead of black – and also make the seating chart like a button or so

I’d recommend styling this with CSS instead of editing the template. Something like this can be added to your stylesheet:

input.ee_s_select_seat {
background: url(link-to-your-button-image) no-repeat;
border: 0;
text-indent: 50px; /* make this the width of your button */
}

/* color the links blue and underline them */
.event_form_field > a {
color: blue;
text-decoration: underline;
}

February 26, 2014 at 1:40 pm

Hi Florian,

When you go to edit the seats, is there anything filled out in the custom tag field? It will look like this

The value of that field will display in the ticket selector after where it says Seat:

With the section alignment not working, did you use it according to the documentation here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/seating-chart/#section-alignment

March 7, 2014 at 9:00 am

Hi Florian,

Please don’t edit any of the plugin’s files. The function that displays the price can be unhooked by an action and then a modified function can be added to the same action. Here’s something you can add to your custom file add-on’s custom_functions.php file or in a custom snippet plugin

add_action( 'espresso_seating_price_select_action', 'my_custom_seating_chart_prices', 9, 2 );

function my_custom_seating_chart_prices( $event_id, $atts = '' ) {
	global $org_options;
	remove_action('espresso_seating_price_select_action', 'espresso_seating_price_select_action', 10, 2 );

	$price_range = seating_chart::get_price_range($event_id);
	$price = "";

	$price = '<span class="section-title">'.__('Seat Price', 'event_espresso').'</span>: '.$org_options['currency_symbol'] . number_format($price_range['max'], 2);
		
	echo $price;
}

Please note that the above code will only display the max price. So if there are any seats that cost less than $36 than it will not display a price range.

The simpler way to set this up without making any code modifications is to assign the same prices as real tickets to the placeholder seats.

March 25, 2014 at 6:53 am

Hi Florian,

I’ll follow up with each of your questions below:

I noticed there was some code already in the custom_functions.php file and I kept it there. Should I have removed that ?

If it’s the code that is already included with the custom_functions.php file that ships with the custom files add-on you can remove it if you’re not using it.

Also, if I want to change the text that says: Add More Attendees? (click to toggle, limit 9) and add more space before the Submit button, what file and line numbers should I edit ?

We generally advise to avoid changing core functions to change the wording of the text strings because it makes for more work than necessary when you update to the next version. Instead, please consider using a translation function like the example in our documentation:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-change-wording-with-poedit/

The exact text string that displays the add more attendees link is as follows:

Add More Attendees? (click to toggle, limit %s)

You can add more space before the submit button by adding some extra margin or padding space with CSS. Here are a few resources that will help explain how to find the selectors to target:

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/15-introduction-to-firebug/

http://htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/