I am wondering if its possible to make it possible for clients to select location with only one employee?
As a photographer, I want to give the clients the option to choose between studio or their company, and as for now after seeing your youtubevideo, it seems like I have to create employees and assign them the different locations and name them "Studio" and another called "Your company", and then rename "Choose employee" to "Select location". This feels like a VERY overcomplicated way to make this work for us that use this plugin, and will make bookings a messy nightmare.
Another solution I'ved tried to go for is make a location called "Select bellow" and make it a custom radiobutton field, but it looks so stupid in the calendar and mail with "Looking forward seeing you the 20th March, at Select Bellow. Can't wait!"
Is there a way to make this easier? I feel like I'm fighting something new everyday with this booking plugin. It seemed awsome at start, but now its down to just great.
You can have one employee in multiple locations but not at the same time. Amelia's logic is that one employee can't be in two or more places at the same time.
You can assign employees to different locations per work period.
For example, an employee can work in London from 09 am to 12 pm and then he can be assigned to work in New York from 12 pm to 17 pm.
Or if you need your employees to be present at all locations in full time you will need to create employees for each of those locations.
Besides those solutions, you can use the third one. You can create two services with two employees and one can be Studio Session and the second Session in your home or something similar.
You can read more about locations and how to manage them here.
Hope this helps.
Let me know how that sounds, and if you have further questions. Thanks.
It's not only Amelia's logic, its actually impossible to physically be in two places at the same time. But real life logic with booking is to prepare ahead of time, so you can prepare to be a place in the future. If that timeslot is taken, then the time will not be available so I wont be in two places at the same time. So I think its really weird that I cannot appoint myself to two locations. Either the customer wants me at my location, or they want me at their location. Simple as that. So Amelia's logic is kinda weak here, being a futureplaning-schedualer.
I think im gonna have to add the option as a custom field and display: none; on the "Location" in the booking. I find it annoying that this couldn't be a implemented thing.
So with Amelia's logic, I should set up appointments with 30 min each location? So if they want me to to come to them, they have to book me between 01:00 pm and 01:30 pm, and if they want to come to me they can book me between 01:30 and 02:00 pm? I hope you understand how bad logic that is, and this would also mess up a lot more because some of the appointments are 5 hours long, so they wouldn't fit or make everything else unaccessable.
This plugin is starting to give me headache.
Edit: Also, if I make two employees, then suddenly people can book me twice which might making me actually have to be in two places at the same time.... #Frustrating
Also... removing the Location with CSS turns out to be quite the struggle aswell, ironicly..
Edit edit: Easiest way was to just delete all locations :)
Sorry about the late response time. I've taken some time to work out what could be the best solution for you at this time.
Our developers might add a better solution in the future, but I can't say an ETA on that.
I'll kindly ask you to add your personal suggestion for this as a feature on this page. As more users ask for a feature, it gets pushed higher on the priority list.
-
I might have a suggestion on a workaround that should work as you need it to. If I didn't understand your goal correctly, please correct me.
- If we go for setting up two employees, one assigned to the "Studio" location, other to "Your company";
there is a workaround that you can set them up for the same email, and you will get notifications when either location gets booked.(*if you use Gmail and Outlook accounts, more on that workaround later)
- Now, regarding being available at full working hours for both locations, and preventing double-booking:
If you link both employees to the same Google Calendar, if one of them gets booked in a certain time frame,
a Busy Time slot will be created, and the other employee will not be available for booking in the same time slot.
In the end, if you place ameliabooking shortcode on the front-end, we can hide the "select employee" dropdown in order to just leave the choice for a location ,
either on the Customize page, if you set the field to not be displayed,
custom code needs to be applied to the page where the booking form is. Depending on what you're using (Gutenberg blocks, or some page builder), adding the CSS or JS can be done in a few different ways.
(If you need help with adding custom CSS to the page, please take a look at this article.)
- This setup, I believe, will allow you to have them select a time, and a location as you originally intended, along with all the notifications and functionalities working, without double-booking?
*More detailed explanation about the email workaround:
You can make two same employees with different emails (you can use the same email by adding numbers for example if your employee email address is [email protected] you can make more employees with the same email adding numbers like [email protected], [email protected]...). This is possible for Gmail and Outlook accounts.
-
Let me know how this sounds. Looking forward to your reply.
- Let me know how it goes when you try everything out, and reach out to us if we can assist or advise in any way.
Even if the ticket auto-closes after a week, you can still write on it, and it will automatically re-open for our attention, or you can create a new ticket, of course.
- We will be working to improve these functionalities and add better features for a simpler solution in one of the future updates.
You can also always keep track of any new features/improvements/bug features on this changeLog page. Our developers always post anything changed at Updates there.
Hello,
I am wondering if its possible to make it possible for clients to select location with only one employee?
As a photographer, I want to give the clients the option to choose between studio or their company, and as for now after seeing your youtubevideo, it seems like I have to create employees and assign them the different locations and name them "Studio" and another called "Your company", and then rename "Choose employee" to "Select location". This feels like a VERY overcomplicated way to make this work for us that use this plugin, and will make bookings a messy nightmare.
Another solution I'ved tried to go for is make a location called "Select bellow" and make it a custom radiobutton field, but it looks so stupid in the calendar and mail with "Looking forward seeing you the 20th March, at Select Bellow. Can't wait!"
Is there a way to make this easier? I feel like I'm fighting something new everyday with this booking plugin. It seemed awsome at start, but now its down to just great.
Kind Regards, Marius
Hello Marius,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
You can have one employee in multiple locations but not at the same time. Amelia's logic is that one employee can't be in two or more places at the same time.
You can assign employees to different locations per work period.
For example, an employee can work in London from 09 am to 12 pm and then he can be assigned to work in New York from 12 pm to 17 pm.
Or if you need your employees to be present at all locations in full time you will need to create employees for each of those locations.
Besides those solutions, you can use the third one. You can create two services with two employees and one can be Studio Session and the second Session in your home or something similar.
You can read more about locations and how to manage them here.
Hope this helps.
Let me know how that sounds, and if you have further questions. Thanks.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
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It's not only Amelia's logic, its actually impossible to physically be in two places at the same time. But real life logic with booking is to prepare ahead of time, so you can prepare to be a place in the future. If that timeslot is taken, then the time will not be available so I wont be in two places at the same time. So I think its really weird that I cannot appoint myself to two locations. Either the customer wants me at my location, or they want me at their location. Simple as that. So Amelia's logic is kinda weak here, being a futureplaning-schedualer.
I think im gonna have to add the option as a custom field and display: none; on the "Location" in the booking. I find it annoying that this couldn't be a implemented thing.
So with Amelia's logic, I should set up appointments with 30 min each location? So if they want me to to come to them, they have to book me between 01:00 pm and 01:30 pm, and if they want to come to me they can book me between 01:30 and 02:00 pm? I hope you understand how bad logic that is, and this would also mess up a lot more because some of the appointments are 5 hours long, so they wouldn't fit or make everything else unaccessable.
This plugin is starting to give me headache.
Edit: Also, if I make two employees, then suddenly people can book me twice which might making me actually have to be in two places at the same time.... #Frustrating
Also... removing the Location with CSS turns out to be quite the struggle aswell, ironicly..
Edit edit: Easiest way was to just delete all locations :)
Hi, Marius
Sorry about the late response time. I've taken some time to work out what could be the best solution for you at this time.
Our developers might add a better solution in the future, but I can't say an ETA on that.
I'll kindly ask you to add your personal suggestion for this as a feature on this page. As more users ask for a feature, it gets pushed higher on the priority list.
-
I might have a suggestion on a workaround that should work as you need it to. If I didn't understand your goal correctly, please correct me.
- If we go for setting up two employees, one assigned to the "Studio" location, other to "Your company";
there is a workaround that you can set them up for the same email, and you will get notifications when either location gets booked.(*if you use Gmail and Outlook accounts, more on that workaround later)
- Now, regarding being available at full working hours for both locations, and preventing double-booking:
If you link both employees to the same Google Calendar, if one of them gets booked in a certain time frame,
a Busy Time slot will be created, and the other employee will not be available for booking in the same time slot.
In the end, if you place ameliabooking shortcode on the front-end, we can hide the "select employee" dropdown in order to just leave the choice for a location ,
either on the Customize page, if you set the field to not be displayed,
or with a bit of custom CSS added to the page:
custom code needs to be applied to the page where the booking form is. Depending on what you're using (Gutenberg blocks, or some page builder), adding the CSS or JS can be done in a few different ways.
(If you need help with adding custom CSS to the page, please take a look at this article.)
- This setup, I believe, will allow you to have them select a time, and a location as you originally intended, along with all the notifications and functionalities working, without double-booking?
*More detailed explanation about the email workaround:
You can make two same employees with different emails (you can use the same email by adding numbers for example if your employee email address is [email protected] you can make more employees with the same email adding numbers like [email protected], [email protected]...). This is possible for Gmail and Outlook accounts.
-
Let me know how this sounds. Looking forward to your reply.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
Rate my support
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Yeah, this is what I mean. I'll check this out :) Long workaround tho
Hi, Marius
- Let me know how it goes when you try everything out, and reach out to us if we can assist or advise in any way.
Even if the ticket auto-closes after a week, you can still write on it, and it will automatically re-open for our attention, or you can create a new ticket, of course.
- We will be working to improve these functionalities and add better features for a simpler solution in one of the future updates.
You can also always keep track of any new features/improvements/bug features on this changeLog page. Our developers always post anything changed at Updates there.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
Rate my support
Try our FREE mapping plugin! MapSVG - easy Google maps, interactive SVG maps and floor plans, choropleth maps and much more - https://wordpress.org/plugins/mapsvg-lite-interactive-vector-maps/
wpDataTables: FAQ | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Front-end and back-end demo | Docs
Amelia: FAQ | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Amelia demo sites | Docs | Discord Community
You can try wpDataTables add-ons before purchasing on these sandbox sites:
Powerful Filters | Gravity Forms Integration for wpDataTables | Formidable Forms Integration for wpDataTables | Master-Detail Tables