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1 year 9 months ago #158856 by Dimitris Klagkos
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Hi,
when you have a repeating event, and you hide the children event, you get a list of dates like the attached.
This is not really convenient if you have a lot of future dates and you want the user to book well in advance.

Is there a way (custom work?) to replace this list with a calendar? So that the user can choose the date (if available)
 
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1 year 9 months ago #158857 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
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Hi Dimitris

I would say that it's hard. If you really want to use calendar, maybe just use calendar directly to display list of events from menu item instead of using calendar for just displaying children events of certain event as you suggested

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1 year 9 months ago #158860 by Dimitris Klagkos
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Hi Tuan,

we are going to have the same event, repeating daily, for about 4-5 months. And some users might book weeks in advance.

That is a very long list, if displayed the way it is right now.
A calendar would be more convenient for the user, so he can choose the date he wants when booking.

I want the calendar just for the user to select the date and not display the events. It gives a completely different style to the website

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1 year 9 months ago #158867 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
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I don't understand how users can select a date in calendar like that. Do you have sample? Normally, the system will display the calendar, and for the date which is having the event, event will be displayed. Click on event will redirect users to event details page of that event.

That's how I imagine that the calendar will work. And users will have to navigate through different month to find the event from the that month

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1 year 9 months ago #158868 by Dimitris Klagkos
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Currently if you have a repeating event, you get a button that says "choose date and location".
When you click it, you see the event details and then a list of available dates.

Instead of a list of available dates, I need a date field, that opens the calendar and let me select the date (from the available dates). Then I can click on the "register" button to continue.

I hope the attached file makes sense. I've seen it work on a different event component, but I would prefer to use yours.
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1 year 9 months ago #158888 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
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I'm afraid of it is not doable. The reason is because there is no way to limit date picker to certain selected date. The best can be done here is display list of date is Select Box to allow users to choose the date they want

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1 year 9 months ago #158896 by Dimitris Klagkos
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a dropdown, still wouldn't work.
If you see the attached image, that's how it's shown now. It's way too long and it's not even all the dates.
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1 year 9 months ago #158897 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
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As I can see, it is not possible to use date picker to allow selecting a date as you want. The reason, as I mentioned, is Joomla date picker does not have an option to allow select from pre-defined dates

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1 year 9 months ago #158909 by Dimitris Klagkos
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ok I can understand that. I'm just looking for a way to make it work for my website.

Is it possible to modify the mini calendar module (or create a copy), that only displays the particular event - not category (even though I can get around that by making more categories), and instead of linking to the event detail page, to link to the event registration page (for that date)?

I had a very quick look at the code and I think it can be done.

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1 year 9 months ago #158926 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
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Could be done, I think. However, what if you need to have both individual and group registrations ? In that case, there could not be two actions linked to a link

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