Event Trackers: Adjust Venue field to multi-line entry

[Piyopiyo-Kitsune]

Description

For WordPress Campus Connect we have events that are "series" events, meaning they take place across multiple days and on multiples campuses (venues). In order to better track which campuses these events are taking place on, we'd like to be able to list them in the venue field in a multi-line box. Example:

Venue(s):

Narnia University
Chronicles University

[dd32]

Is multi-line the best approach here? I ask this as in addition to the Venue field, there's a Venue Address field that's also present.

There's also been requests that require various data points about each venue, such as a venue contact.

Would it be better to instead have a duplicatable set of Venues each with their own details?

Or is this request about the Application for events, rather than the tracker?

[Piyopiyo-Kitsune]

Hmmm that's a good point. If we go with your recommendation of a sort of "add another venue" button that duplicates the relevant fields for entry, then I think in the data export when we select 'venue name' if it could export all venue names that would be fantastic.

Is this feasible or more work?

[dd32]

Everything is possible, Everything is complicated with multiple venues :)

Export and where Venue details (For example, Venue geocoding) are used elsewhere complicates it.

For Campus Connect events, what fields in this venue section are used / needed? I feel like it might not be as important as for other event-types with a singular venue on a single day?

[supernovia]

It might help too if we work backward: when do we need to access that data & what's needed there?

[Piyopiyo-Kitsune]

@dd32 Right, it's important for WPCC events only because we need to be able to track and parse out all participating educational institutions.

[dd32]

@Piyopiyo-Kitsune Right; But Do you need to record ALL of the existing venue fields? Is a list of Name + Contact method all you need? Do you care about capacity and the physical address? etc etc etc.

Just making it multi-line and removing all the other fields is maybe all you need right now, but if tomorrow you say you need the addresses too, it changes what to do. There's also a request from @peiraisotta to have contact details for each venue too.