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In reply to: [Book a Room] Events do not display on calendarI may have a test version of an updated plugin later today. I have one more thing I need to do before it’s ready to test, if you’d like. Searching is limited to boolean search instead of natural text search, no category or age filtering and no sorting.
I don’t want to release this as an update, at least not yet, so I’d have to get you a beta version that you could install to test, if you’d like.
If you’re still interested, let me know.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Events do not display on calendarThe biggest issue in making a quick fix for this is that, while they share the same table, meetings and events are different enough that I’m going to have to make a whole new function for displaying mixed items. This is because it isn’t just the display that’s made for events only, it’s the search (which has options for categories and ages, things that aren’t in meetings), automatic registration links (which meetings don’t have) and a bunch of other things. I’m going to have to make a whole new shortcode and function to manage this.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Book-a-Room w/ gMailThanks! I’m interested in what you find.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Book-a-Room w/ gMailAre you able to get into CPanel or your logs and see if the mail was deferred or blocked and possibly left an error message?
Also, one issue we’ve had with our own email system and relaying is that you need to put the “From:” address to be whatever it is in the test message you get.
For example, our domain is heightslibrary.org, and we use a separate mail server for our main email, only sending Book a Room alerts from the site. We were trying to use noreply@heightslibrary.org as the From address, but this was being blocked. The test email came from Test_email@ourhost.server.com. So, we had to use noreply@ourhost.server.com instead, and it now works.
You may want to ask on our public Facebook page in case someone else may have run into this or something similar, too!
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Book-a-Room w/ gMailThis has not come up. BaR uses the standard PHP email mail() function which is configured through PHP/Apache.
HAve you tried checking the “(Use Reply-To instead of From in case of email issues)” box on the email settings page?
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Rooms can be booked in the pastI’ve added an update that fixes this (1.6.6)
Using a 0 now allows anyone to book a room today, after the current time.
Entering a 1 means nothing today but tomorrow is fine.
Entering a 2 means today and tomorrow are out, but if today is the 1st, the 3rd would be open to reserve.
Again, this only affects non-logged users. Logged users have no restrictions.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Events do not display on calendarOur library uses Book a Room, so it’s not a matter of being volunteer as much as it being one part of my job, and one that needs to be prioritized for our library first; otherwise, this plugin wouldn’t exist.
I appreciate the suggestions and understand your impatience, but, being a free plugin, I can’t personally offer the same level of customization and support you would get from a paid product out of a large company. And I still try to be very prompt about bug fixes and adding new features!
That being said, there are some problems in what you want to do that need to be addressed because this is something that the plugin was never designed to do. I am looking at ways to do it, even if it’s a one-off fix, but it’s not just flipping a switch, it’s modifying how things are written to the DB and how data is collected. At this point, it might be quicker if you aren’t getting a ton of these a day, to just have the staff who approves a meeting then copy and paste it into an event, then remove the meeting (archiving it would remove it from the schedule without sending out a denial email). That way, you use the meeting form as data collection, then create your own event.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Functionality questionsAdded another on the Facebook page (and my pastebin). Will try and get the last few up today.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Broken URLGlad it helped!
Normal URLS use a ? to start a query string. So your link is telling WordPress your ID is a specific number. If you add the whole URL in with the ?, then it breaks any query strings used in the plugin.
If you just enter a digit for regular permalinks, the code reformats the URL to add the query string properly.
This only applies to the regular permalinks. If you use a different kind, you just use the url.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Broken URLThis was in the help, but it appears that after several rewrites, I have taken it out somehow!
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Broken URLIf you are using the regular permalink, you have to use the page ID number, not the full URL.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Broken URLYes, I understand.
Check your Book a Room settings. Replace “URL for reservations page” with “295” if it currently is “?page_id=295”
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Broken URLThis is a setting in the main settings of Book a Room.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Broken URLI can’t see what’s going on inside because it’s intranet only and I don’t have access.
If your URL for reservations page is “?page_id=295”, just change it to “295”.
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In reply to: [Book a Room] Reservation Pop-up ModalI did notice it was a little big. I released a small update today that makes it smaller and more centered. Can you let me know if this helps?