Changing from individual events to daily events
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I’ve been using EME on a website to organise trips once per week to many different destinations and it worked great.
Now I need to change that, and want to offer small group trips to a few fixed destinations.
So now, instead of having a list of events by date, I need to show a list of destinations and allow people to choose a date to book.
How can I do this with EME?
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That’s great, so now I can link to a location page and it shows a list of events, one per day. The only issue is that I want to set up the daily tours to run from today until the end of the year, but it just shows a long list of events/dates. Is there some way to allow a visitor to select a date from a date picker and then take them to the event for that date to book?
I see that going to the URL https://mysite.co.uk/events/2020-08-29/ goes to a page that shows all events on that date. I’m wondering if I could use a JavaScript date picker that goes to the selected date by adjusting the URL. But is there a way to filter the list by location ID from the URL? Or by category ID, as I’m wondering if using categories for each tour might be better if I have 2 different tours in the same town.
Thanks Franky, using what you suggested I’ve figured out how to make this work. I insert the events shortcode in a page and use templates:
[eme_events category=1 template_id=1 template_id_header=2 template_id_footer=3]This outputs a dropdown selection list of available (event) dates:
<select id="selectbox" name=""> <option value="https://mysite.co.uk/events/test-event/">August 28, 2020</option> <option value="https://mysite.co.uk/events/test-event-2/">August 29, 2020</option> <option value="https://mysite.co.uk/events/test-event-3/">August 30, 2020</option> <option value="https://mysite.co.uk/events/test-event-4/">August 31, 2020</option> <option value="https://mysite.co.uk/events/test-event-5/">September 1, 2020</option> <option value="https://mysite.co.uk/events/test-event-6/">September 2, 2020</option> <input type="submit" onclick="javascript:location.href = this.value;"> </select>It’s not a classic date picker but it’s still more user-friendly than a long list of event links. The only problem is that the generated HTML code is displayed literally and not treated as HTML because the tag characters are escaped:
& lt; select id=”selectbox” name=”” & gt;(I’ve added spaces between & and lt; because this page keeps rendering it.)
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
In the templates, when I switch to the plain text editor then it removes all tags completely when I save the template. So this header template becomes blank as soon as it’s saved.
<select id="selectbox" name="">
And this main template gets turned into just the placeholder “#_STARTDATE”.
<option value="#_EVENTPAGEURL">#_STARTDATE</option>
Why is this happening and what can I do to fix this?On the eme_filterform, I don’t see a date picker (like tours have on TripAdvisor) but it does give a dropdown list of months to filter the events list which is still helpful.
I found that the eme_calendar is more what I need as it looks and behaves more like what people would expect when booking tours. I think there might be a bug though. When I use the shortcode and restrict it by location ID, some date links go to the event page (which is what I want) but some date links go to the location page and show a list of all events in that location.
So on the calendar if I click on a date link, the URL is: https://mysite.co.uk/events/2020-09-02/?location_id=4 . On that date there is one event in location ID 4 and one event in location ID 2. The URL is clearly requesting the only event on 2nd September in location ID 4 and should go to the event page, but instead it just shows the location map and list of all events in location ID 4, exactly the same as displaying the shortcode [eme_location id=4] .
The calendar date links also behave in an inconsistent way when restricting the calendar by category_id, one date goes to the event page, another date goes to a list of all events on the selected date (ignoring category). Can you please check if these are bugs? Thanks
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