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nakakubo
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October 12, 2017 at 9:37 am
I’m developing an application with the Event Espresso to manage the admissions of a conference with some particularities related to registration needs.
The conference registration has 2 different prices for professionals and students. The registration for the conference opens free access to various workshops and lectures.
During the two days of the conference, workshops and lectures will happen at same time session in different rooms, so the attendees must chosen a unique event per time session, as the calendar below:
Day 1
EVENT A (Session 10:00 ~ 12:00) / Workshop A1 – Workshop A2 – Lecture A3 – Lecture A4
EVENT B (Session 13:00 ~ 15:00) / Workshop B1 – Workshop B2 – Lecture B3 – Lecture B4
EVENT C (Session 15:30 ~ 17:00) / Workshop C1 – Workshop C2 – Lecture C3 – Lecture C4
Day 2
EVENT D (Session 10:00 ~ 12:00) / Workshop D1 – Workshop D2 – Lecture D3 – Lecture D4
EVENT E (Session 13:00 ~ 15:00) / Workshop E1 – Workshop E2 – Lecture E3 – Lecture E4
EVENT F (Session 15:30 ~ 17:00) / Workshop F1 – Workshop F2 – Lecture F3 – Lecture F4
To manage the event, I’m planning to organize the application in 2 steps. At first, the attendees will be directed to a main registration event page to choose one of the two price options.
After the payment using Paypal gateway finishing the first step, the user must be redirected to a page with a list of events organized per time session, so the attendees will be able to choose only one activity per session. The control for each time session will be managed with the posting of one event for time session, limiting the maximum number of tickets allowed per order to 1.
To improve usability on the second step, the Multiple Event Registration add-ons will be used to allow the attendees to see all the time session events on a page list with a single checkout.
I ask for support for some questions:
1. Is this method of use the best one for the project needs? Are there other possible options?
2. How is the way to redirect the finishing of the first step after the payment confirmation to an arbitrary page with a list of session events list?
3. How can I suppress the first step event (conference registration) of the page list with the sessions events list?
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Josh
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October 13, 2017 at 8:23 am
Hi there,
I’ll answer each of your questions below:
1. Is this method of use the best one for the project needs? Are there other possible options?
This method has its drawbacks because they’ll have to fill out a registration form twice. Also, the admin side might be a bit confusing to sort through the two sets of registrations for each attendee.
Another option would be to capture their workshops and lecture selections on the registration information form. If classes have size limits, options can be removed manually.
2. How is the way to redirect the finishing of the first step after the payment confirmation to an arbitrary page with a list of session events list?
That can be tricky because Event Espresso doesn’t have a built in way to add a redirect. One way this could be done is with some custom PHP and JavaScript programming where you conditionally load in some JavaScript only on the payment confirmation that does a delayed redirect to the session events list.
3. How can I suppress the first step event (conference registration) of the page list with the sessions events list?
You can display a list of only sessions by setting a category on the session events, then add a shortcode to a page that displays events from the category only.
e.g. [ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_slug=sessions]
Hope that helps!
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