Open richard-lee-863 opened 2 months ago
This would be a great addition to Hi.Events. We are using the system for a weekly event, same time every week and the duplicate event feature has helped with managing this. It would be great if it was more set and forget though. I still need duplicate the event, upload homepage feature image for the event (this has been fixed in v0.7.0-alpha.2) then I need to adjust the ticketing dates that the tickets go on sale.
For example, we don't start selling tickets for the next weekly event until the previous event has commenced. Once the event starts, the next week's tickets can be purchased as next week is promoted during the running event. From a usability point of view we don't want customers purchasing tickets for the wrong event so only one weekly event is open for ticket sales at a time. It would be great if this was more automated for weekly or recurring events from an event creation and date management point of view.
To add onto the ideas above, a "Calendar View" could also be helpful for these use cases.
In our case, we have 12+ performances, starting on different days with varying start times (matinees, weekdays, weekend events, etc). Right now they are modeled as separate tickets (which is now a lot more user-friendly thanks to the "collapsable tickets" logic in https://github.com/HiEventsDev/Hi.Events/pull/254). However, a calendar view for multi-instance events would probably be a better user-experience in this case (rather than scrolling through a long list of dates in plain english).
It could work like the following:
Some more thought is probably needed regarding whether all relevant models should be able to be marked as "relative/recurring" (e.g. promo codes, capacity assignment). I'll think about this more!
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If we need to create a regular, re-occurring event. Say for instance, an event that runs every Tuesday and Thursday night, every week, between a start and end date. It seems currently to do that we'd have to set up a single event, with all ticketing, and then duplicate that from Tuesday to Thursday, then again duplicate for each individual date required.
Describe the solution you'd like An easier way to manage this might be to have a scheduling system where you can automatically have events 'renew' or get duplicated when the old one expires, so that manual duplication is not required.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Additional context It would also be nice to have a clear way to define event instances that might link to a common "Type" of event, sort of like an "event template". For example, in my repeating example above, that could be a pub quiz where ticketing and times etc.. is always the same, the only thing that changes is the dates. So you wouldn't necessarily need all the overhead of more ticketing etc.. being duplicated, if it can link to a "template"