Some Major Issues or Additional Features!!!

Hi,

We just purchase the Event Booking extension yesterday and start the installation process as per provided in the documentation, however, we are having some issues that we do not know if these are bugs or missing features in Event Booking and some help or additional information will be more than welcome.

1. After adding new event, we are able to upload a main image to represent the event, the image appears in the category listing and the detailed event page as well, however, not in the event module, we are placing the event module on our website home page using the up-coming events, there is no image or image parameters in the module but we would like to show the main event image as well in the module, is there a possibility to do that?
2. The 'submit new event' form seems quite complex for simple end-users, there are some parameters that should not be available to end users but only for administrators like selection of which user group may register to the events! Is there a possibility to choose which fields or data should appear in the 'submit new event' form? Otherwise, we'll have to create a 'submit new event' from our form extension, then users will be able to use this customized form to submit event and we as administrator will then have to re-upload these events from backend, this is not that user-friendly and quite time consuming but if there is no other alternative solution, we'll have no choice.
3. This one might be consider as a feature request rather than an issue, it's about the invite friends to event feature, actually, end-user can only upload email contact by copy/paste but since Event Booking offers a direct integration to Jomsocial, it will be nice to give to end users the possibility to invite their friends connected to them through Jomsocial as well! Hence, they can either import their contacts by copy/paste or simply select friends from Jomsocial friend list! This will be very nice and even make more sense!

These are some major issues that we are currently having with Event Booking, as a paid extension, we were expecting these features to be already available as these main features are already available in Jomsocial default event management system...

We needed to have a separate event management system to be able to have a complete control of whom can post new event and have a much more professional display of the event, the solution for acl control with Event Booking is fine, display is fine as well, but only the main image issue that we reported above.

Hi

1. After adding new event, we are able to upload a main image to represent the event, the image appears in the category listing and the detailed event page as well, however, not in the event module, we are placing the event module on our website home page using the up-coming events, there is no image or image parameters in the module but we would like to show the main event image as well in the module, is there a possibility to do that?

The support for event image only added to the extension recently and it only uses for category page and event detail page. It has not added to the module yet. I just edited the module alitle so that it can display thumb image of event. You can get the module in the attachment of this post, upgrade to your site and it should work well (I haven't tested it yet but it should work).

2. The 'submit new event' form seems quite complex for simple end-users, there are some parameters that should not be available to end users but only for administrators like selection of which user group may register to the events! Is there a possibility to choose which fields or data should appear in the 'submit new event' form? Otherwise, we'll have to create a 'submit new event' from our form extension, then users will be able to use this customized form to submit event and we as administrator will then have to re-upload these events from backend, this is not that user-friendly and quite time consuming but if there is no other alternative solution, we'll have no choice.

=> The reason it has all fields on the form (like in the back-end) is because the feature is not only used for front-end users(registered) but also for managers of the site (who admin doesn't want to give access to back-end) to login to submit/edit events. I understand that you need a simple set of fields. However, I think your solution is complex. The simpler solution would be editing code to remove the fields you don't want. You can look at the file components/com_eventbooking/views/event/tmpl/form.php and try to do it yourself (it should be easy).

3. This one might be consider as a feature request rather than an issue, it's about the invite friends to event feature, actually, end-user can only upload email contact by copy/paste but since Event Booking offers a direct integration to Jomsocial, it will be nice to give to end users the possibility to invite their friends connected to them through Jomsocial as well! Hence, they can either import their contacts by copy/paste or simply select friends from Jomsocial friend list! This will be very nice and even make more sense!

Please understand that Events Booking is standalone extension. It supports some integration with Jomsocial as explained in the description of the product but not designed in mind to integrate with all features of Joomsocial. So there is not a feature which allow inviting "Jomscial friends" as you want available .

Regards,

Tuan