One form in two languages

Hi! I am planning to make a registration from for an event in two languages: my native language and English. In the Translations tab I have already translated all the items from English to Finnish and it works like a charm on my site. However, I cannon figure out how to implement the same registration form in English. I have tried setting the menu item, category and event itself to English, but it still appears in Finnish.

Any ideas how this could be done? It can also be the same form for both languages as long as the user is able to choose language prior to entering the form.

Thanks!

Hi

What Joomla versions you are using? If you are using Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3.0, Events Booking supports multilingual feature already, so I think we should not get any problem.

Please let me know the answer so that we can guide you more detail. Maybe you can send me the link to registration form so that I can have a look at it ?

Tuan

Thanks Tuan for your reply, the Joomla version is 2.5.8 Stable. Unfortunately the site is offline for maintenance at the moment, so I cannot give access to it.

random5 wrote: Thanks Tuan for your reply, the Joomla version is 2.5.8 Stable. Unfortunately the site is offline for maintenance at the moment, so I cannot give access to it.

Just send the information when it is online again and I will check it for you. I am sure that we can get this issue solved.

Tuan

Some more questions:

1. How do I increase the spacing between form items and rows? At the moment is looks kind of confusing as everything is bolded (also the descriptive parts) and there is literally no space between the rows.

2. At least gmail keeps complaining about the email messages Events Booking generates. It seems that Gmail thinks those messages as fraud messages since they are made to look like they come from my gmail address but in reality Joomla generates them. How could I resolve this issue?

Hi

1. How do I increase the spacing between form items and rows? At the moment is looks kind of confusing as everything is bolded (also the descriptive parts) and there is literally no space between the rows.

=> I think it is something related to css. You can use Firebug add on for Firefox to find and edit css easily. It is very difficult to check and give you suggestions without accessing to the site. I would suggest you to setup your site to a temp server so that we can help you.

2. At least gmail keeps complaining about the email messages Events Booking generates. It seems that Gmail thinks those messages as fraud messages since they are made to look like they come from my gmail address but in reality Joomla generates them. How could I resolve this issue?

To be honest, this is the first time heard about this issue. The extension just uses Joomla API to send emails. The emails are HTML emails, so I don't know why Gmail complains about it. I tried to check it on our server (with gmail) and don't see any errors, too .

Tuan

Tuan Pham Ngoc wrote: Hi


To be honest, this is the first time heard about this issue. The extension just uses Joomla API to send emails. The emails are HTML emails, so I don't know why Gmail complains about it. I tried to check it on our server (with gmail) and don't see any errors, too .

Tuan

Okay, it seems that this problem only persists if you leave the event notification email address blank in event advanced settings. So this issue was resolved like this.

Is there some way to indicate in the Registrants list view (front-end) that who of the participants have made the payment? in our event all payments are made by offline payment and I would manually select those persons in the list who have paid. I see that there is the Payment method column in Registrants list in back-end. What does it do and can it be used to indicate those who have been confirmed to participate?

Hi

Since the registrants list view in the front-end is viewable by every people, so I don't think we should add a column to show who is Pending/Paid. If you want to see who paid for the event, you can view it from back-end.

Tuan

Dear Tuan,

I want the registrant him/herself to be able to see whether his/her payment has been accepted.

But anyhow, I'm happy also with this current system.

By the way, the group registration form has caused a lot of confusion among my test team. Why does one have to input data three time even if the group is only two persons. I understand that the billing information needs to be input separately, but why cannot it be done so that the first registrant inputs billing information while filling the registration form? Almost all have thought that they need to input data for THIRD person in the last phase.

I think if you want registrants to be able to see this, you should create a menu item to link to registration history view of Events Booking. Your registrants can then access to that menu item to see his registration history if he wants (also his registration status).

If you want to make that information available to public users, maybe you can edit code alitle. Look at the file components/com_eventbooking/views/registrantlist/tmpl/default.php and you should be able to do the modification yourself.

Tuan