Price not agreed... ...but not free!

Sometimes we have an event that is not going to be free - perhaps 6 months away that we haven't finalised the cost for. We know when it will be running, so we want to list it with a registration date in the future. But if we don't know the price it will show as free. We do have events that are free and would quite like to shout about that! Any thoughts on how we could achieve this.

In addition it would be very handy if I could have a way to have free split into two sub-types:

Free		Free
To Public		To Members

Any thoughts on if there would be a way to do this? i.e. can I edit a template and put in a check for registration type?

Yes. You can try to edit code and try to make this work. For event details page, the file need to be modified is components/com_eventbooking/view/event/tmpl/default.php

Try to pay with the code and you should be able to customize it to meet your need

Tuan

I can probably botch this into the common/event_timeline.php file

However to do it "properly" I should be:

• adding a new helper function
• adding a new language file entry or 3
• adding content to the event_timeline.php

That would let me add some modified EB_FREE type text that says "FREE to members" or "FREE to public"

I'd imagine that would be useful for others. Could do with a setting in the config file to switch these too.

If I do all that future upgrades become a nightmare. Is there some way to contribute code back to the project e.g. via a git pull/push?

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I haven't yet figured out how to do the other bit of events that we haven't set a price for, but assuming I can develop something - again could it be contributed back?

calum polwart wrote: I haven't yet figured out how to do the other bit of events that we haven't set a price for, but assuming I can develop something - again could it be contributed back?

The logic will be another config setting which says "Show price if registration is disabled"

This is the first of 3 enhancements I'm making:

OK - so I've created the code to add a line under the "FREE" box that says and event in only for members.
It has a new config setting in admin, plus language and a minor css tweak.

I've pout the changes into a GIT repository. Happy to provide details for a pull if you would like them.

Screenshot below shows how this looks in the timeline.



Have attached 5 patch files from git if you would prefer that (does anyone really use patch files?)

Todays work has included patching to add a config setting that will allow switching off of Price Display (free or otherwise) when Registration is set to disabled.

As above, this is in my git repository if you want it let me know and I'll sort a pull request.

Patch file available if wanted

The default configuration in EB is that when use Categories instead of Events for Custom Fields is that the Custom Fields are selected based on the Main Category for an event.

I want an easy way to recycle clusters of fields which might be applied across a number of events. So for instance I might have a set of sailing events that could be a Race, A Course or A Social Event. Race will want Sail Number. But only a Crewed Race would want Crew Names, Only a Handicap Race will want Class of Boat. But all Races would offer Camping, but for some events thats "free" (included in the entry fee!) for others its an optional extra. For social events there may be meal extras but no sail number, usually no camping but occassionally there may be. I want others to be able to select the fields and they won't have backend access. So the answer is to set up EB like this: Then I've modified the code to allow a switch in config to enable multiple categories to be used for application to the fields, and modified a number of SQL lookups based on this.

Again its in my git repository if wanted, or I can create a patch file.

(Untested on Cart)

The idea of Field-Categories is great! Being able to group fields into some sort of category (or set or folder) is something that I've been thinking about asking for, but never quite got to posting it in the features request forum.
To further the idea a bit, it would be great to be able to 1) expand & collapse -and/or- 2) sort by -and/or- 3) show & hide; field-categories in the custom field view.

In the current release on the custom fields view (with Category instead of event set in config) there is a drop down to select category. Not quite nesting but you can see the nest on the drop down...