Custom Fields with Cart Checkout

I'm having some trouble in getting my custom fields to appear inside the checkout in the "multiple events in one" mode.

Has this feature been implemented? Or am I missing an option some place?

Thanks

I am having the same problem after updating to 1.3. Custom fields do not show in form with multiple booking enabled.

I have the same problem..

Hi all who want to user custom fields with multiple checkout feature, I am still focusing on the development of the extension and haven't prepared a good document yet . Here are my explaination :

1. In the current version, when you activate multiple booking feature, you will not be able to use custom fields. That is because the multiple booking feature allows you to book multiple events within one checkout, so the system doesn't know what custom fields it need to display . For example, Event 1 has custom field A, Event 2 has custom field B, if you register for these two events, what custom fields the system will display ? That's something complicated and I would like to receive some suggestions from you if it is possible .

2. Here is my solution for this problem :

- If you have use Virtuemart before, you will see that in case there are many options for a product, Virtuemart will ask the customers to choose the option before adding the product to shopping cart.

- In this case, I think Event Booking can handle the custom fields feature in the same way. If an event has any custom fields, users will need to choose/enter value for this custom field before adding the event to cart .


Do you think this will be OK for you usage ? Any comments/suggestions ?

If you are OK with this solution, I will work on it immediately and hopefully, we will have it done on Friday this week .

Looking forward to receive your suggestions / input .

Regards,

Tuan

I think that would work well for the people who require custom fields which are different for each of the events.

However, I require a way to add custom fields which are assigned to every single event. So, it would make more sense to have the field showing with the rest of them during the checkout.

Does this make sense? I can try explaining again if you require me to.

Hi

Your explanation is not very clear. Could you please try to explain it more detail so that I can understand what you want ?

Thanks,

Tuan

Sorry about that, will try again.


I require people to mention the kind of profession that they are. I have a field for this in CB, which used to be linked to a custom field in your event booking software. It appears and auto-completes fine in the single event per checkout method.

I need this field back in the checkout process for the multiple events, because for me the field is of vital importance. It also doesn't make sense to have them being asked for their profession for every event that they sign up to because it will not change from event to event. So I need it in the checkout with the rest of the checkout fields.

Does this make a bit more sense?

I also need to be able to use custom filelds to capture more data on the person registering not the event. I need to be able to add Prefix (Mr, Dr, Mrs), Organization type, etc that are universal and not event specific. Also need to know how to place the custom fields between the standard fields.

Hello to all of you,

I have written this with the hope to clarify this issue a bit. Please comment.

I used Virtuemart (VM) before and now I switched to Eventbooking (EB). In VM I had a custom field 'how did you find me?' These custom fields are related to an order and not an product (equals an event in EB) or customer. Taking the other message in account this could mean that you can relate custom fields to:
A. an event;
B. an order (containing one or multiple events);
C. the customer.

EB doesn't know 'orders' like VM does. an important question is whether or not to switch to a datamodel customers -> orders -> events like in VM. If so I think it will have a major impact on EB. I don't think it is a wise thing to do at the moment because it is only interesting when you use mutliple events and you register different client information for each event (like in Event registration pro). In this case you need to know which client placed the order (and is legally responsible) and what the order looks like. This is just were Event registration pro fails! Because of the way EB works it is no issue for EB. Its works as it should work (my compliments Tuan that you didn't make the mistake that Event registration pro made and I think also DTRegister). An other reason is that I can't image any custom field right now that really needs to related to an order.

So option A and C are left. A is at this moment only possible with one event only ( meaning multiple event registration is switched of).
If I am right devtech1 and essentialmarketer are meaning option C.
Tuan your solution is for option A when using multiple events.
I also prefer option C.
Tuan if you want to build option A, I think his solution is the right one. Maybe they both can be implemented.


Kind regards,
Marcel

Hi all

From your comments so far, I see that all of you don't need custom fields for individual events, you only need global custom fields (custom fields which are showed on checkout form to collect information about the user who registering for events and not depend on the events they choosen for the checkout) .

I think I will implement the custom fields feature into Event Booking for multiple checkout so that It works like that:

1. Allow you to define global custom fields ( I will add a new option into Event Booking so that when you create a new custom field, you will be able to assign it to "Only displayed in multiple checkout form") . This will meet the need of all of you so far .

2. Allow you to add custom field to individual event. If you has any custom field assign to the event, customers will need to choose / enter value for this custom field before adding events to cart. This works in the same way with custom attribute in Virtuemart. (For example, if you buy a T-shirt, you need to choose the color, the size of the T-shirt before adding the product into shopping cart) .

Do you think that will meet your requirement ? Please leave your commment so that I can implement the feature into EB .

Looking forward to hearing back from you .

Regards,

Tuan