TOPIC: Free events

Hi Team,

I am running Version 5.2.5 and having some minor teaching problems.

All events that will be posted will be submitted by registered users (organisers).
Although their event could be free or carry a charge, our site will not be taking bookings or payments.
In this case, some features become redundant or cause problems
The following is a list of things that are causing some issue.
1) there is no need for us to display The Information box on the event page
2) Booking information box does not need to be displayed, as all it says is The event cannot be booked online. Can this be hidden in settings or only through modify event page template.
3) events submitted on front end do not auto publish, even though Settings seem to be correct. One page booking is yes, Book as unregistered is yes, Moderate Events fronted is no.
4) Max participants per booking defaults to 10, Even though max bookable in default values in settings is set to 0
5) calendar pop up does not appear to work on iOS when creating an event on front end.
6) when creating an event on front end and you submit the first page, it does not auto scroll to top, could be confusing for some users as it looks like nothing has happened until they scroll up.
7) how to remove the paid event button in the second event creation page, is this a setting or only css.
if someone that has an account but is not logged in, submits an event, using the registered email, then it through as an error
Warning JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: -1
9) following number 8, it says that the event Was submitted successfully, but it is not listed and in backed has not been published, even though moderate events front end is set to no.
10) the organiser field in backend is not displayed when editing events, so unable to link to the correct organiser if they exist.

Sorry for some many questions.

Simon

Hi Simon,

1.) You can just hide it - in the bootstrap 3 template there is a setting for that (Matukio configuration) or in the modern one you can just use a single line css

2.) You can always use CSS for that, we have a class to easily do that on almost any element in Matukio:

.mat_noticket {display: none}

Just copy that into the css file of your Joomla! template.

3.) How about the menu setting? Do you mean the submission form for the organizers (advanced) or the (public) event submission form???

This one?? matukio.compojoom.com/submit-event

4.) These are different things, but still not sure what you mean :/ Can you explain a bit more?

5.) We are using Fullcalendar with qTips2 - both state they are completely mobile friendly.. Going to investigate - Android looks fine.. Which iOS version / device?

6.) See 3.) On a normal screen the height shouldn't be so wide that this should be a problem - i hate forcing scrolling to top with JavaScript, but i am going to look at it.

7.) On the "Public" event submission form this is a setting in the Joomla menu entry for the form .. Just set paid events to No.

8.) Can you explain it a bit more? Can't replicate that locally. This is weird - i built in a check if the user id is < 0 etc.

9.) There are different moderate events settings for both event submission forms.. Most settings for the new one are in the Joomla MENU entry. See screenshot attached.



10.) Hmm? It's on a first page, even a required field and in the backend it's displayed always (only in the frontend not)



Kind regards,
Yves

Hi Yves.

1) Information Box, can be hidden with Menu open/close function set to No and Event view menu start open set to No. No need for CSS.
2) Done.
3) Done, menu settings were not set.
4) When a FREE event is created on front end, Max. participants per booking defaults to 10 in the backend. This then displays the Sign Up Now To Book Tickets.
We do not need to offer tickets, and cant find a way to disable that function. If there was an option to set this in overrides, then it would stop this. I thought max bookable was the control for it. If I set Max Particpants to 0 in backend, then the sign up for tickets is not displayed.
Temporary solution is to add #mat_tickets {display:none} to css.
5) Also tested on frontend in Chrome on Win7, iOS 8.4.1 on iPad Mini 2. No calendar icon, just manual edit. When date changes, tooltip of course wont update, see attached.
6) I understand about not wanting JS.
7) Done
8 ) More testing, see 10
9) Done, caused by the menu settings for auto publish, not global setting.
10) See attached images. If the setting, Book as unregistered is set to Yes, then the Organiser field is displayed on the third page of the event submit form.
If the field is completed and the organiser does not exist, then the event is submitted them the juser error JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: -1 is displayed.
This field is not linked to the matukio organisers or joomla users, so even if the name of an existing user is entered in the organisers field or an email address associated with a joomla user is used, juser error is still displayed.
This would be better if it displayed a drop down list or created organisers, just like the Locations field.
Upon submitting and checking the event in the backend, organiser field is missing, thus it can not be changed if an organiser is created or wanted to be assigned. See image.
Solution may just be to prevent unregistered users from submitting events.

11) Leading on from #10 and the organisers.
All existing Jusers on the site are event organisers, from when we used custom K2. It could be good to be able to import Jusers into the Organisers on Matukio.
Maybe a feature request, to allow selection of specific user groups to import, most fields can then be merged.
Something to consider, we have around 100 users (organisers) that need to be added to Matukio organisers.

12) Whilst on the subject of organisers.
Maybe consider an option to allow frontend creation of organisers and locations?

Simon

Hi Simon,

4.) Yep, we don't have a input field for that in the event submission form so Matukio just sets a default value. I made a setting out of it, but not displaying it currently, because i thought nobody needs it.. Going to add it with the next version for you.

5.) We are using the default joomla bootstrap tooltips there.. But going to probably remove it there - they don't give any extra value..

10.) Weird going to debug that.. haven't seen that before.

11.) What would be the value of that? You don't need to have an "organizer object" to be shown in the frontend or be an organizer. The organizer data in Matukio is just for displaying - and if you import it from joomla users you won't have nice pages (because description etc. would be missing and you need to add this manually).

12.) Thought on that, but on most pages these are static things created by the organization team (admins) etc. But i added it to the wish-list. If more people ask for this i am going to add a form for adding locations and an edit my organizer profile link in the frontend.

Cheers and thanks for your feedback!
Yves

5) Calendar pop up not displaying is the main issue. From experience, novices struggle to understand how to modify the date time, even when it is presented to them, but picking from calendar is simple.

11) Only value I can think of at this time, is if anyone using Matukio wishes to create event organisers from Joomla users, maybe from a specific group, else it can mean a lot of data entry in creating organisers, when the Name, Email could be taken from juser, then user selection to import fields from the user profile?
Maybe they need to have organisers register for a Joomla account, before they can submit events. In this case, their details could be imported in Matukio
That way, address, phone, website is imported too.
Appreciate that this is static, but it is valuable link between events, as visitors may see an event from an organiser, and want to see other events they put on.
Also appreciate, there has to be demand in such a feature.
Hope that makes sense.
In fact, just double checking and the Organiser field in the backend on an event is linked to Juser and not Matukio Organiser
If we do use matukio organisers, why cant we change it in backend?

A couple of new ideas.

13) Display the event image, in the event details page, as at the moment, I can only see it displayed in the event list.
14) Finally . . . . As we hide the right side bar in the event page, the organisers box is lost. I presume we could create a template over ride for the event view and just move the organisers box code elsewhere.

I knew that as soon as I hit submit, I would find the answer.
Matukio Organisers are link to Juser, so if a custom name overide is used, then that is applied and displayed.
Ignore 11

Hi Yves,

Regarding item 4 Max. participants per booking, is there a way I can hard code this to 0?
At the moment, when an event is created on the frontend, I have to manually edit the event and set it to 0 to prevent the booking button from appearing.

Many thanks.

Simon