TOPIC: Recurring event customization

For the booking of our theatre plays, I plan to use Makutio.
Situation:

• There are at least 3 plays with 10 dates each per year.
• Each play/title has several days it is played (=recurring)
• These dates do not take place on a simple interval (like daily, weekly etc)
• They are - most of the time Fr, Sa, So
• The first and last date of a play normally has a slightly different title (attached "Premiere"/"Derniere" to play name)
• The first date of each play tends to have less open seats than the rest (for the families of the actors)
• i want to automize as much of the article/event display/booking/linking as possible: Write article, create event and dates and link it to the article via some magic keyword/ui element selection - there should be no module creation/set up or coding required when posting new plays/dates, as the author does not necessarily have a technical background
• All dates of a given play should automatically (via module included in template) be listed/linked in an article for the given play. I need to use an article for the main description for archiving, since plays that are not being shown (=not bookable) anymore need to be moved to a publically visible/browsable archive.

Problems / wishes

• Currently, I don't see any way to customize the title
• Open Seats/number of participiant can not be modified on a per-date basis
• Makutio modules can only be filtered by category, I'd love to have more filter options, e.g based on a set of meta-keywords, or, even better, the modules should have an option that allows to filter for events which are linked (=new event configuration field) to the article the module is used in (if any).

This leads me to a rather ugly workaround:
I need to define each date that requires customization as a separate event, which effectively means i have to do a lot of (unecessary) copy/paste work.
This also makes displaying a single event (line) per module much more challenging. Currently, to realize what i described above, i'd need to do a lot of modding on core Matukio module files, down to the sql statements to link articles to events. My approach is to add the alias of the article as meta-keyword to the event(s) to be linked. For this i guess i have to extends the sql-statements used by the Makutio modules with another where clause

Hello,

Currently, I don't see any way to customize the title

No the title can't be overriden per date, just per event. Dates mostly use the information's from the event. You could try reusing the top / hot event though for the premier. And instead of writing Hot or the Fire-Icon you could override that and add "Premiere" etc. with it.

Open Seats/number of participiant can not be modified on a per-date basis

No, i am going to probably move some more data fields as a possibilty into the date (like title or short description), but not too many - still thinking on the list.

Makutio modules can only be filtered by category, I'd love to have more filter options, e.g based on a set of meta-keywords, or, even better, the modules should have an option that allows to filter for events which are linked (=new event configuration field) to the article the module is used in (if any).

This would be very complicated and create very complex queries and you would custom field types for joomla etc.

Kind regards,

Yves

I see. Thanks for the answer and tips. I found a solution, using a combination of template overrides and a few modifications/extensions of the old mod_matukio module, at least for the filtering part.

The issue about the numbers of available seats still exists, but i'm going the wait for the updates you announced. It's not as pressing and maybe you'll include it sometime later