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Create and implement a Submit PSA/Event Form #30

Open BigActual opened 7 years ago

d4mation commented 7 years ago

Would this be for Visitors to add their own Events to the Calendar?

If so, this should handle it for us and tie into The Events Calendar nicely.

https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-community-events/

BigActual commented 7 years ago

bitmoji

BigActual commented 7 years ago

This form is present... Ugh it's long though. This requires tie into the Home Page interface. I don't seem to have controls here for adding forms to this section.

BigActual commented 7 years ago

Also we need to tie this into an approval workflow so that an approved PSA becomes an event. Now that I'm thinking about this, I think I botched the form. Should this not have been a Gravity Form? Was there another tool to use for submitting EventCalendar Pro Events for approval?

d4mation commented 7 years ago

https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-community-events/

BigActual commented 7 years ago

PSA Policies and Guidelines Revised.pdf

The "Events/PSA Form Will Go Here" section should be titled "Events/Public Service Announcement Policies and Forms" with links to the attached "Policies and Guidelines" and "Forms".

Thank you for your help!

Harry Hill

BigActual commented 7 years ago

Are you planning on implementing this on Tuesday?

d4mation commented 7 years ago

I can implement it before, but I need a copy of the plugin necessary. I know the license was bought, but I do not have the actual .ZIP file.

BigActual commented 7 years ago

OK, I asked Harry to download that and send it to you.

BigActual commented 7 years ago

Followed up with a phone call

d4mation commented 7 years ago

Public Repo, so deleted that bit

BigActual commented 7 years ago

the-events-calendar.4.5.12.2.zip event-tickets.4.5.5.zip

Edit: These are available for free from the WP Org Repo, so I'll leave these

d4mation commented 7 years ago

Made the "Events/PSA Form goes here" bit into something that can be edited within WordPress.

The current title is a bit long though. We will either want to shorten it somehow, or change the font-size.

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d4mation commented 7 years ago

@BigActual

Been messing with this for a few hours now. The AJAX Live-Refreshing is not playing well with the form this makes at all. I even forced every Script that would be added to the page to get loaded one after another Synchronously (your Web Browser normally does not allow this. I had to get very creative to force it. This is also not very efficient and slower.) and it still causes JavaScript errors stating that things which previously were loaded are inaccessible (Even basic stuff like jQuery, which is always loaded)

However, if we were to disable Live Refreshing just for the Event/PSA Submissions Process, we wouldn't need to worry about this. This could be a stop-gap potentially.

Just wanted to throw that out as an option. I don't know if/when I could get this worked out. Getting the Events Calendar itself to work properly on Live Refresh was a Herculean feat and this is proving to be the same.

In a similar vein, this Form cannot be in an Overlay. This is because I cannot force it to load its necessary scripts as I want to. If I could tell it "Hey, load your scripts always. I don't mind." we wouldn't be having these problems, but unfortunately their code doesn't check if it should run (Instead of asking "Does that Date Picker field exist?" before creating it, it just always tries to create it) which causes tons of JavaScript errors.

d4mation commented 7 years ago

Took a lot of tweaking to ensure members of the Community couldn't create Radio Shows, but I now have this set on the server without Ajax.

I explicitly set any Community Events page to not load using Ajax, but if we ever need to for another reason, adding the class no-ajax to a link will also prevent that page from loading via Ajax.

I'm going to label this as "Needs Ajax" and leave this open so that we may be able to come back to it at some point.

d4mation commented 7 years ago

A thought that I just had with this:

Something that we could add in the meantime would be that if a Page cannot be loaded via AJAX for one reason or another (Such as this one), if they're actually listening to the Radio Stream, it could throw up a confirmation dialog saying "Visiting this page will stop the Radio Stream. Are you sure?" and if they select "yes", they will be taken to the new page.

Not a perfect solution, but a good stop-gap. The Ajax Live-Refreshing is only truly there to benefit the Radio Stream. If they aren't listening to it, they may not even notice that the page did not Live-Refresh.