[Plugin: The Events Calendar] 1/2 hour user-initiated time slots?

  • wilddoktor

    (@wilddoktor)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve been searching for *months* for this functionality…I think your community module might do the trick! I’d like to confirm with a few question:

    First, I’m working with a client who wants to fill every half-hour slot of time for a full year. (17520 slots in a year) But they need “outside” people to create their own event for each of those slots. So, we could potentially have 17520 different entries (most people will only sign up for one time-slot per year).

    I see that we could allow annonymous users to create events, or have users register, or moderate. That’s awesome!

    a) If we allow anonymous and somebody later registers, can they go back and edit the event they created anonymously? or is that doable by an admin?

    b) if we have them register, can WordPress handle 17+ thousand users? Is that realistic?

    Example: a person wants to sign up for 1:30am-2:00am on March 3. They will need to know first of all if that slot is available. Second, they will need the ability to add a desicrption of what they are doing during that time slot.

    On the other end, we want anybody to be able to browse thru a calendar and see full / empty time slots; and any full time slots should show a description of what’s going on during that time slot.

    a) can users see full / empty time slots before signing up for one?
    b) will the calendar view actually show 48 events per day?

    Sorry this is so long; I hope you can answer these questions!

    Thanks!

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

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  • Rob La Gatta

    (@roblagatta)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hey there wilddoktor. Thanks for the note here. Happy to answer your questions:

    a) If we allow anonymous and somebody later registers, can they go back and edit the event they created anonymously? or is that doable by an admin?

    Since the system wouldn’t have any way of knowing that anonymous submitter was the same user who later created an account, there would be some manual lifting required on the site admin’s end – specifically, changing the author for those anonymous submissions to the newly-created user on the backend. At that point the user would be able to make those edits.

    b) if we have them register, can WordPress handle 17+ thousand users? Is that realistic?

    Not sure about that…that’s a question for WordPress 🙂 I’ve seen sites with a few thousand WP users of various statuses but am not sure about going as high as you’ve mentioned there.

    Example: a person wants to sign up for 1:30am-2:00am on March 3. They will need to know first of all if that slot is available. Second, they will need the ability to add a desicrption of what they are doing during that time slot.

    So long as previously submitted events had been published, anyone viewing the frontend could see what days/times had events registered for them already. Frontend submitters can add descriptions to their submissions.

    On the other end, we want anybody to be able to browse thru a calendar and see full / empty time slots; and any full time slots should show a description of what’s going on during that time slot.

    There’s no way to see unclaimed slots on the frontend, unless you created “shell” events for those. But all that displays on the calendar are events that have already been created/published. 48 events per day may be pushing it in terms of design alone; that’ll look pretty intense. You may want to consider segmenting them out by category if you’re going to have that many.

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    Apologies for the delayed response on this; we have a dedicated ‘Pre-sale questions’ thread on the forums at tri.be that we monitor daily (http://tri.be/support/forums/forum/_welcome/pre-sales-questions/), so if you have any others down the road feel free to post them there and we’ll respond quicker. Hope the information above was of some value and please let me know if you’ve got other questions.

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