Yes, we actually tried that, but visually it looks odd and basically defeats part of the reason why we moved away from a product type cart.    Not to mention if we changed our descrptions now, as I understand our permalinks would change and any prior event purchases might be impacted as well?

Thoughts?

Hi Dave,

If it’s automatically added, then why didn’t all the events we initially created have the date appended to the product description?

Did you create the event and then edit the product description?  The reason why I ask is the last test you created ‘daves event on test‘ didn’t have the date included within the product description?

What part is automatic?

In follow-up to the above:

How did you go from the ‘Event’ name: daves test
to the ‘Product’ name: Ticket: daves test – 2018/01/03

Was this a manual edit? We created thirty-one (31) events and none of them added that information to our product name and the thought of making manual sweeping event and/or product name changes has me worried about possible impacts to inventory/check-in/custom order information, etc.

The only place that a ticket mentioned in the ‘Products’ page is within the product description and it simply states: Event Ticket

Where is the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ coming from?

Thanks!

Any updates? (See last two posts)

Thank you.

I’ve tried this several times (i.e. open event/edit/update) , it appears there is some type of criteria, and we’ll definitely need Ashan’s input.  This would solve my issue with locating the correct event within non-event aware reports and/or other WC related displays of information that don’t understand calendared events, although I somehow doubt it’s going to be that simple; needless to say, I’ll remain as hopeful.

Thank you for the reply and I look forward to Ashan’s input as well.

try editing an event as in opening up the edit- and simply click update and see if that updates the product to include the date?

H Dave,

Thank you for letting Ashan know and yes, I have no doubt both of you have been extremely busy after the latest release and please understand, I truly do appropriate the support and follow-up.

//edit: appropriate = appreciate

Hi Dave,

In related follow-up, I disabled all non-essential plugins to see if they might be interfering with the product update you mentioned (i.e. ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ ) and then opened an event, selected update, although the product name was not changed.   It must be a criteria that we’re unaware of that only Ashan can shed some light upon.

Hi Ashan,

In looking at the ‘Products’, I’m not seeing any reference in related to the event time/date.  Now when a customer purchases and event, the new order will show:

(Event Name)
(#sku_xxxx)
(variations)
(Event-Time)
(Event-Location)

The issue was related to the title, when running a report or any WooCommerce inquiries there is no reference to the event date; Dave was able to create a new event and then update the event to show the following layout in the product section:

‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’

The xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx being the event name.  We’ve created and actively using 31 events and none of the have a mention of ‘Ticket or yyyy/mm/dd’ in the product name, although they do mention ‘Event Ticket’ within the description body.

We didn’t try experimenting on our events aside from updating as the site is live and I didn’t want to risk any damage to our inventory.

Could you take a look?  Do you need our login information again (or do you still have it from the last login?)

LMK, Thank you.

Hi Ashan,

In EventON Tickets, specifically file /includes/class-functions.php – line #296, I noticed this:

‘post_title’ => ‘Ticket: ‘. $__sku.$event_title.$_date_addition,

It’s part of a larger function:

// ADD NEW matching woocommerce product
function add_new_woocommerce_product($post_id){

What got my attention was:

‘Ticket: ‘. $__sku.$event_title.$_date_addition

(Dave Ref: ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ )

It minics the result that Dave was talking about, can you shed more light on this?

Thanks!

New Information! So I created a simple test event with the following event information:

Event Name: Track Day Event Test
Event Tickets – YES
Ticket Pricing Type: simple
Ticket Price $1.0
Event Start Date: 2017/12/31  7:00AM
Event End Date: 2017/12/31 6:00PM

All remaining fields were left untouched or plugin defaults.

As result of this event creation test, the following was created:

Event Name: Track Day Event Test
Permalink: https://www.pacifictracktime.com/events/track-day-event-test/ ‎

WooCommerce Product Name: Ticket: Track Day Event Test – 2017/12/31
Permalink: https://www.pacifictracktime.com/product/ticket-track-day-event-test-20171231/

So it appears that yes, EventON Tickets does create a product name with the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ layout without any needed code modification.

That said, it did not do the same when I created (31) events a month ago, the clear difference is that of the (31) events I created, they’re ‘ALL’ day events, they use variation pricing, visible in the WC catalog, have Event subtitles, Event Location Names/addresses, generate Google Maps from Event Locations and use Event categories.

Therefore, we know the functionality exists to add ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ within EventON Tickets publishing process to the WC product name, the question is why didn’t it do the same for my original (31) events?

Having the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ layout would help us with our WC reports, WC product views or simply finding information as presently we have events with similar names, although those products don’t have any ticket or date references.

As mentioned previously, we’ve considered manually changing the WC product names to match the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd’ layout, although I didn’t want to risk an inventory problem and/or mismatch on a live site, not to mention I didn’t want to risk breaking the relationship between the tickets and the product, or negatively impacting the permalinks.  

Thoughts?

In follow-up and to avoid showing the aforementioned test on our live calendar, I’ve set ‘Exclude from calendar’ to YES.

As a result, updating the event removed reference to the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd‘ layout from the WC product name.   Needless to say now I’m very confused as to what’s occurring?

It would appear the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd‘ layout is created upon the initial event creation, alas, the subsequent edits of the event clear any reference to  the ‘Ticket: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – yyyy/mm/dd‘ layout.

Note: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx = WC product name

Thank you for the updated code; I’ve ran a couple of tests and when updating the event, the WC product title now contains: Ticket, Sku, Description and Date.

Do you feel this can be applied to all our events without impacting inventory or any related functions or am I overthinking the nature of the product title within WC?

Thank you, again for the code update. 

PS- Does the code include end dates within the WC product title for multi-day events or just the start date of the event?

My apologies, the term ‘description’ should be ‘title’.

Just to double check, if I update all my events, thus changing the product title, will that have any potential negative impacts?  I’m likely just being paranoid, but had to ask.

Thanks!

Hi Ashan,

Yes, it appears to be working well.  The only request is that it would support the ability for multiple date events in the title, but that would likely require far more modification.

The review has been left; thank you very much for all your assistance!