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CiviEvents - buy a ticket for reserved seating
August 11, 2009, 04:49:43 pm
I am interested in using civiCRM to manage events where a registering user can buy a ticket to reserve a particular seat at a table.

From what I understand, CiviEvent only allows you to limit the total number of attendees. I'd like to allow the user to pick a seat from any table which isn't already full. Each table is added to the event, or maybe to the even location, and has a capacity specified by an administrator. Once the table is filled, it is removed from the available choices for the next user.

I'm very new to civiCRM, so any mentoring would be appreciated. I'd really like to contribute whatever I can come up with in a way that is useful to others. Or even collaborate with development.

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Re: CiviEvents - buy a ticket for reserved seating
August 11, 2009, 07:01:53 pm

I think your best bet would be to do this via hooks and custom templates

You'll need to introduce two (or maybe one?) new fields: pick a table, pick a seat

you'll need some other DB table to keep track of what is the table structure for an event. For a module i'm building, i decided to store this data in a CSV file (not the best option, but easier for the client to update).

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Re: CiviEvents - buy a ticket for reserved seating
August 11, 2009, 07:47:55 pm
Lobo,
FWIW, this came up at the NYC meetup with a couple people. I have a hard time wrapping my head around what a feasible and functional solution through the interface would look like, but it may be something to discuss.

Maybe the setting is bound to the price set field? The limit/cap, that is.
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