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ajdonnison

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Extending Events
June 01, 2008, 02:52:49 am
I want to extend Events to include time slots per module with participants signing up to both an event and a time slot and have a per-slot maximum participant count.  This would obviously be configurable (i.e. if the event has only one slot it would default to current behaviour).

On the surface this is pretty easy and I could hack the existing code to do this, but I'm wondering if it would be better to build it as a separate module (EventSlots?) so that if there was no interest then it wouldn't suffer from changes in the core Event module.  Does anyone have any comments, suggestions?

The idea is to support volunteers signing up for staffing election booths in a controlled manner.

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Re: Extending Events
June 01, 2008, 11:54:06 am

I think it would be great if you could extend the event functionality do do so.

You will need to hack the code and templates to so, but i suspect your work can be added to core in a future release 2.2. This functionality has been requested in the past.

A few things to think about while you are doing this:

Slots can also be thought of as sessions. Each session can be structured as a sub-event (time, location, max number and amount). In addition the main event also has similar properties (time, location, max number and amount).

Let us know if you need any help/assistance. We'd be happy to spec this out in greater detail and help with the design etc

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ajdonnison

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Re: Extending Events
June 02, 2008, 01:29:38 am
I like the concept of a slot as a sub-event, that would make it far more useful. You obviously have some strong thoughts on this, and I'd be happy to take them on board.  Give me a day or two to get my head around this and I might take you up on the offer of spec/design assistance.

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Re: Extending Events
June 30, 2011, 05:33:26 am
Hi.
Has this ever been implemented ?
Any pointers would be welome, thanks in advance :)

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Re: Extending Events
July 01, 2011, 03:34:12 am
I did something similar once as a Drupal module:
http://civicrm.org/blogs/hershel/civicrm-ticketing-and-attendance
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