Booking calendar for admins

[Anonymous]

I’m managing a site for a horse ranch, and they offer trail rides. Thanks to EME, people can now book the rides online, which is great, but giving the ride guides a really simple way of seeing the booking details for each ride is proving to be a challenge.

The list on the “Change Registration” page is helpful, but the guides need to see the list their phones because they’re out on the ranch working, not sitting at a desktop machine. Having to log into WP on a phone, then navigate the WP admin system to get to this list, and then make sure that the list is displayed properly (it doesn’t always filter the events by date when first viewed…I’ll probably submit a bug report on this) is a bit much.

I’d love to give these guys a link to page that has a calendar view similar to the one generated by [eme_calendar], but showing bookings instead of upcoming events. Clicking a booking entry would pull up a page showing all the booking details (customizable via shortcodes, placeholders, etc).

If there’s some other way to make this happen with the existing system, please let me know. I tried a bunch of things, but couldn’t find a simple way to build either a list or a calendar of upcoming bookings.

[Franky]

Why not just use the link to the “printable view” in the event?
This is the link:
wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=eme-people&eme_admin_action=booking_printable&event_id=#_EVENTID

Only the persons with the correct rights can see this list, but I can create an extra conditional tag for that so that regular visitors don’t even see that link.
That would work no? And that link is also accessible from the event overview btw …

And also: #_BOOKINGS exists, for which the layout can already be changed via placeholders in the EME settings (as for #_ATTENDEES).

[Anonymous]

The printable view might work, but it still requires an event ID to be passed. The ranch has three rides a day, six days a week. I’d like to find a way for the guides to just see the whole list at a glance, and then dig into an individual ride if they need to, rather than having to dig into each event one-by-one to see if there are any reservations.

I’m kind of dead in the water until I figure out why/how my EME database disappeared. However, before that happened, I did try to use #_BOOKINGS on a test page, but it just displayed the placeholder name, not any actual data.

[Franky]

#_BOOKINGS is a placeholder, not a shortcode. So it can be used inside format settings, but not on it’s own.
See the doc concerning placeholders for more info.

I also added placeholders #_EVENTPRINTBOOKINGSLINK and #_EVENTPRINTBOOKINGSURL in the next version, showing either a link or just the URL to the printable bookings list, if you have the correct permissions.

With these (either #_BOOKINGS and your own formatting, or the links) you can let the guides click on an event and either see the bookings made (by using #_BOOKINGS in the single event format setting and changing the layout of that list to your liking in the EME settings) or click on a link and see the printable list (which can be totally adjusted to your layout using CSS).

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