TOPIC: Altering times

Just a thought...
I have a fair that lasts for 4 days.
The weekdays open at 18:00, whilst the weekends open at 16:00
How about implementing daily opening hours if they are different, rather than always assuming all days have exactly the same times?
I also know of several fairs whereby they take different entrance fees on different days... actually I also know of some events that charge differently according to what time you get there...
It is probably tricky to control this stuff... I assume that since I have always wanted it, but never seen it on any event system (and I think I have tried them all).

Just a thought...
At the moment, the backend works like this.

In my opinion, I don't understand why an "End date", should be there, when it is as it is.
I mean, let's say the event lasts for several days, and there are changing opening hours.
It is extremely logical that events (well, everywhere I have been) change opening hours occurding to which day it is. For example, events on Wednesdays normally do not keep going as long as an event on a Friday or Saturday. Weekdays people work, and therefore many Events take this into account, by opening accordingly after work hours. But the weekends have different opening times.
So from that way of thinking, it would be smarter to introduce some way for time alterations, daily.

If the fields covering time where isolated, and the date incremented according to need (for example "Add next day" or something) then the times daily would be easier.
It might give booking trouble, as that would also be effected... as also many events have variations in price according to weekday.


I know that this way of doing things would be much more correct for basically every event I know of, apart from one-night parties.

Hi Nils,

aye i really like that idea, but implementing that for everyone without creating new issues is going to be very very complicated. Have something similar already on my todo-list and have been thinking on that topic since the very first version

Kind regards,

Yves

P.S.: Is that Matukio 5?

I can see it is a big thing to get done.
But, this is a system that would be much more flexible for all kinds of events, not just a seminar for a few hours etc.
An "event" lasts for several days.
At the moment, Matukio is not really suitable for events.

The daily additions could perhaps be made so each day gets added when you press a button "Add day" or something, and then the next day fields come in place.
This way there is not a preset amount of days, just one.

The biggest issue is perhaps the ticket.
But, the ticket can be removed from a global one, and placed daily.
As I think I also stated, some events have different daily prices.
Another extreme problem (everywhere) is that many events last til past 00:00 at night. So the ticket price is actually locked to the previous day, and it seems like 2 days, when it is actually just one. But, this is a tricky issue for everyone.

I have "solved" this "problem" by just typing the daily changes in, in the event description.
Sure it works etc, just like a regular article. But that is not really the point of an event system.

PS: it is Matukio 4.5.4 (updating now)