Booking form for a conference with workshops

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky,

I currently try to create a booking form for a conference including several workshops in two slots (in the morning and in the afternoon). The attendees must register for the conference with 8 different seat categories and prices, then they have to choose their workshops. I thought about a multibooking form, but the conference is a multi seat event and the workshops aren’t.

Furthermore each attendee can only choose a workshop in the morning or in the afernoon and can take part in a discussion forum in the other time slot (due to capacity problems). So if he/she chooses a workshop in the morning he/she can only attend the discussion forum in the afternoon and the other way round.

Is there any way to create a conditional logic like that? And can I create a multibooking form including a multiset event and events with only one category of seats? Or can I embed a simple booking form into a multibooking form?

I am grateful for any hint or tip.

Best regards,
Meike

[Franky]

While I understand the usecase, currently it is not possible in EME in this manner. While you can use some javascript to hide the afternoon when someone selects a seat in the morning (and vice versa), that is per event. I’m struggling with how to represent events with single seats/multiseats in one form … I would need time to investigate and check the code for this.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your quick response, I guessed that it is not possible in EME to hide the workshop selection dependent on the choice made for the other workshop slot. But thanks for clearifying.
It would be a great help if I could use a multibooking form including single seat and multiseats events. Thanks for thinking…

[Franky]

Well, I could add an option multiseat_template_id to the booking shortcode … need to test everything then first of course

[Anonymous]

I would highly appreciate – can you keep me informed?
Thanks!

[Franky]

Although not tested (but I see no reason why it shouldn’t work, but again …):

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2788027/

[Franky]

Improvement on this:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2789641/ (switch to multiprice_template_id, not multiseat_template_id since sometimes an event is not multiseat but only multiprice if different price categories exist).

[Anonymous]

Glad to here from you – and thanks a lot for implementing this. But actually I need a little help in how to use it.
So I can use multiprice_template_id instead of template_id in the multi-booking form – right?

[Franky]

you have to use both in fact:

template_id for the events that are not multiprice
multiprice_template_id for the events that are multiprice

In case all events are identical (be it regular or multiprice), then the use of template_id is sufficient. I updated the doc too.

[Anonymous]

I tried to figure it out and use this shortcode:

[eme_add_multibooking_form id=128,129,131,132 multiprice_template_id=15 template_id=19 template_id_header=14 template_id_footer=16]

Actually only the booking form for choosing a workshop (single price event) is displayed, the multiprice booking form isn’t. Have I messed it up?

[Franky]

Does template id 15 exist? And what is the content?

[Anonymous]

Yes, template id 15 does exist and this is the content:

Mitglied LV Hessen Frühbucher: #_SEATS{1}
Mitglied anderer LV Frühbucher: #_SEATS{2}
Nichtmitglied Frühbucher: #_SEATS{3}
Schülerin Frühbucher: #_SEATS{4}
Mitglied LV Hessen Normalpreis: #_SEATS{5}
Mitglied anderer LV Normalpreis: #_SEATS{6}
Nichtmitglied Normalpreis: #_SEATS{7}
Schülerin  Normalpreis: #_SEATS{8}

Just the different prices to choose from, the other information to fill in is in the header and the submit button in the footer template.

[Franky]

And what is the content of template id 19 and 14? Because if you create a html-list or a table (ul or ol or table html opening tags in the header template), your template 19 should have li or tr+td tags surrounding the content.

[Anonymous]

There is an opening and a closing table tag in template id 15 (multi price). There is another table (with opening and closing tag) in template id 14 as well. I thought that should work.

[Anonymous]

I got it: the multiprice event was a draft, so nothing was displayed! Thanks for your patience and sorry for stealing your time.

[Anonymous]

Just one last question: Is it possible to restrict the selection in the multibooking form to just one singleprice-event? It sounds a little odd to restrict a multibooking event to just booking one event but if praticipants could choose a seat for the multiprice event and book one workshop (single price event) this would solve my other problem in a very simple way.

[Franky]

There’s is one thing you can try: the filter eme_eval_multibooking_form_post_filter , see https://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/category/documentation/12-hooks-and-filters/
You’ll need to build your logic in the filter yourself, but it is possible to check for things there.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I will see if I can figure it out!

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