Event Booking Questions

Hello,

A couple of questions regarding your Event Bookings extension.

Is there a world map view page that shows all events on the map?   If so, do you cluster events that happen in the same area?   We often have events in the same town/city and having a cluster with a number clearly shows there is more than one event.

Which comment extensions do you integrate with?

Is it possible to show who the event organiser is and link to their joomla profile page?  I want attendees to know who the organiser is.  Maybe a custom field can do this?

thank you Peter

Hi Peter

1. For the map, you can see it on our demo site joomdonationdemo.com/eventbooking/ . The events are grouped by locations (each location is a marker on the map, click on a marker will show events from that selected location)

2. For comment extension, the extension only has integration with JoomComments. If you use a different extension, you can write a plugin for the itegration

Tuan

Thank you.

and what about the last question (you may have not seen it as I edited my post just now).

Is it possible to show who the event organiser is and insert a link to their joomla profile page? I want attendees to know who the organiser is. Maybe a custom field can do this (this is what I do in my current extension)?

I have visited your map page - it doesn't group the multiple events if I zoom out?

Hi Peter

We only have option to display creator of the event. When you click on an event creator, it will display all events created by that user, not link to user profile

So Yes, in this case, you can use event custom fields to display this link

Regards,

Tuan

For your question about zoom out map, to be honest, I don't understand. Maybe it is something not handled in the code of the map yet

As an example - let's say there are 100 events across the world and when you open the map page it is fully zoomed out for the world. If there were 10 events in London, it would look like there is only one event from that zoomed out view. If the events for London were grouped together and the map pin had a number on or above it, the user would understand there is more than one event. You then click the marker and it zooms in a shows all the pins.

That is good I can use the custom field for the profile link i need. Question re the database fields - when a user creates a new event from the frontend, do you assign them as the owner/organiser of the event and link the event to their Joomla user account (their ID number)?

Hello Peter

1. For the map, I guess there is limitation. I will have to check to see how to handle it in the future

2. For events created in the frontend, yes, we store Joomla User ID of the user who created that event into a field called created_by_user in #__eb_events table

Regards,

Tuan

Thank you for your help.

The event grouping on the map is a nice feature - if that could go onto your new feature list, it would be a great addition that other users will find helpful if they have many events in one area.  I have seen it used in another extension I use - www.joomunited.com/joomla-demo//my-maps-...tion/location-search

Thank you for confirming re the user ID - I'm sure that will work fine with a trigger to update a custom field upon the creation of an event.

I will get signed up later this week and get testing the migration from my current extension.

thanks Pete