Feature Request?

  • Resolved gene-stevo

    (@gene-stevo)


    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Josie,

We have had the pleasure of using EntryWizard for years now and thinks it’s probably the most useful plugin on our site. However, we are sooner or later going to be in a bit of bother.

The thing is our club has three different categories for members: General, Intermediate and Advanced.

Currently, after downloading “images inc spreadsheet”, our comp’ admin accesses the EW directory using a combination of our clubs separate member database and a visual basic programme written by one our elders.
This examines the contents of the EW directory and sorts all the images into three new directories subject to the member categories as above, along with sheets for the judge to mark each image in each category.

The problem we have is that Microsoft are intending to discontinue support for Visual Basic which means sooner or later our workflow is going to fall over.

If I was to add General, Intermediate or Advanced as biographical info to each member’s “Edit User” page (or create same as additional roles within User Roll Editor), is there a way that EntryWizard would be able to find this and add it to the csv file and sort the images by user category as is currently done by our comp’ admin via Visual Basic?

If not, could this be considered as a possible function request.?
If not, would it be possible to commission such a function and if so what sort of cost would we be looking at.

There is of course an easy way to achieve this. I could make three different versions of the form (tweaked identifiers) and trust that the users would click on the correct link to access the correct comp image upload page. Sounds simple but there will always be those who won’t!

Thanks for taking the time to view this.

Best regards,

Eugene Stevenson (www.conwycameraclub.com) web admin

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  • Plugin Author Josie Stauffer

    (@joanne123)

    I’d suggest looking for a plugin that would let you create a “Member Category” field in the user profile, with possible values General, Intermediate or Advanced.

    Your plugin would have to provide a function that returns the category value for any user_id, and you would need to use the “ewz-extra.txt” sample that comes with entrywizard to create a small plugin that would interface entrywizard with your extra fields plugin.

    For may years, our site used Cimy User Extra Fields, but that is no longer available. We are in the process of installing Profile Extra Fields, but have not yet had enough experience with it to recommend it.

    Thread Starter gene-stevo

    (@gene-stevo)

    Thanks so much for your help Josie. Not pretending I know anything about making plugins but your help is, as always, very much appreciated ??

    Marking this as solved, Cheers, Eugene.

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