One event in multiple venues?

Event venues are a taxonomy terms. So in theory, you could have multiple venues. But the entire API (as well as the UI) assumes that only one venue is present.

So while you can provide a field for selecting a second venue, you’ll need to forcibly assign the second venue, and also expect only one of them to be visible on the front-end (by default).

(Assuming some familiarity with WordPress) To ‘force’ the second venue, you’ll probably want to use the eventorganiser_save_event hook rather than save_post hook. They are identical in purpose except the former is intended only for events, and runs *after* Event Organiser has updated the event. This will allow you to jump in, collect the selected venues from $_POST and assign them both using the normal WordPress API.

If you want to display both venues on the frontend, that’s easy enough. You just need to edit the default templates. There’s a function for displaying a map of venue(s), so you would just need the venue ID (term ID) of both venue terms.

In short, most of the venue API is an added layer on top of the WordPress term/taxonomy API, so you can get around most things by abandoning EO’s functions and using the WordPress functions directly.

Thanks for the quick response man! This helps a lot. We’ll give that a shot.

Okay, we’ve basically gotten it working. One issue I wanted to ask your advice on: Whenever someone clicks on an event from the admin calendar view, a popup appears and shows an ‘event details’ tab. “Where:” is in here as the old venue field that we’re trying to replace with out new venue field that supports multiple venues.

We’ve been trying to find a good way to customize this view, but we’re a bit confused about where to start. One thing we’ve considered is skipping that pop-up altogether… just having a click bring folks straight to the edit event post page. That’s not optimal, but could work if there’s no good way to add our new field into this popup. Even that though, seems like a tricky function to override without editing or replacing admin-calendar.js. (We’re trying to do these customizations in the least-desctructive way possible … so far all of our work is in separate plugins.)

Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

could you share your code? i might have use for it
Thanks

Hey there! Yeah, it’s not exactly at a perfect stopping point, but here’s a ZIP of it how we’re using it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3q08syw9fezony1/rt-multiple-venues.zip?dl=1

Hey jfarris!
The code in that mini plugin works well. I just wanted to mention that this is what I used to display the map and its address in a page on the front end:

<?php
	$venues = eo_get_multiple_venues($post->ID);
	if (count($venues) > 0) {
		$venue_objs = $venue_ids_array = array();
		foreach ($venues as $key => $venue_name) {
			$venue_objs[] = eo_get_venue_by('name', $venue_name);
		}

		if (count($venues) > 1) {
			$lieu = 'Lieux';
		} else {
			$lieu = 'Lieu';
		}
	?>
  <h3>Directions</h3>
  <h6><?php echo $lieu; ?> de l'évènement </h6>
  <ul class="venue-addresses">
  	<?php
			foreach ($venue_objs as $key => $ven) {
				$venue_ids_array[] = $ven->term_id;
				echo '<li><strong>'.$ven->name.'</strong><br/>'.$ven->venue_address.' '.$ven->venue_postcode.'</li>';
			}
  	?>
  </ul>
	<?php echo eo_get_venue_map( $venue_ids_array, array('width'=>'100%', 'height' => '300px') ); ?>
<?php } ?>

@jifarris, link is 404. Code share still available? tyvm