• From: Norfolk, England
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Topic: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

We use Luxcal for church bookings. It has a number of different rooms, the use of which we record, and we have half a dozen calendar editors.

Yesterday, someone who has just started making entries again after many months of COVID lockdown, commented "Oh! I have to type the venue. I was expecting a drop-down list to pick from".

Great idea, I thought, as our existing editors all use slightly different formats to describe the various rooms, some not capitalising their entries, some using abbreviations such as "Rm" for room, some adding a "The" at the beginning.
It would be good to standardise the format of rooms to avoid confusing ordinary visitors to the calendar.

Is there any chance that, in the next release, the calendar Admin can specify all possible venues and have them appear on a drop-down list, rather than an editor having to type them?

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  • Dan
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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

Perhaps a solution would be in the set up for Venue.  Admin can select "User Entered" or "Defined". If "User Entered" is selected then they type what they want when entering the venue information. If "Defined" is selected then the Admin adds venues like they do "Categories".

Dan

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3 Reply by NorfolkGreg (edited by NorfolkGreg 2022-02-16 15:49:08)

  • From: Norfolk, England
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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

That's exactly what I wanted!

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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

Having the Venue field act the same as categories would be very useful to my organization as well.  The admin can keep the list current with all possibilities of Venues.  This keeps them consistent regardless of who is adding the event.   Is this being considered for a future version?

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5 Reply by Roel (edited by Roel 2023-01-26 19:15:25)

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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

Hi there,

Yes, this feature will be included in the next calendar version.

It will work with a file in the 'files' folder, called venues.txt. This venues.txt file should have a venue per line.
On the admin's Settings page, it will be possible for the venue field to select the following values:
• Free text, • List, or • Both.
When Both is specified, the user can select Free text or List.

Roel.

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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

Thank you so much for the reply and good news!  The stated way you are implementing this feature is PERFECT.

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  • Registered: 2018-11-18
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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

I find the dropdown menu an excellent feature.

Would the following be possible in a future update?

I have over 300 items in the dropdown menu - four-digit code then the actual name

XXXX - NAME

When userdefined it would be great if there was an auto-complete based on the venue.txt once a valid XXXX code was typed in

Regards
Mattie

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Re: Venue Field - Dropdown List?

The auto-complete feature is not yet on our To Do list. I see it could be useful for you, but it is a lot o programming and so far there was not much demand for it.
Roel

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