add volunteer name to 'clear' area

There is a bit of a work around for this if your volunteers also have user accounts on your site. If you make the sign-ups publicly accessible and log-out of your admin account (so you are a guest user), then if you sign up for something and use the email associated with each volunteer’s user account, my plugin will assign that sign-up to that user, so then if they sign in they will be able to see and clear their own sign-ups. After you enter all your sign-ups, you can always turn back on the option to force people to login, if you don’t want the public to view & sign-up.

That’s the only way it can work right now if you are manually entering sign-ups for your volunteers, but want them to be able to see what they signed up for. Just make sure you are NOT logged in so that the sign-up gets associated with the user_id that matches the email you enter.

As far as seeing the names when you want to clear someone from a sign-up, that can be done from the admin dashboard. Go to “All Sheets” in my plugin’s menu, then click on the name of the sheet, or hover over it and click on “View Sign-Ups”, and then you can see a complete list of the sign-ups, including phone, email, and full name, and there is a “clear spot” link next to row allowing you to clear any sign-up you want.

Hi Stephen,

This sounds counter intuitive.
I as an admin for example forgot to sign out before I added signups for other people.
The result is that these persons are now listed in their time slot, but the tasks are shown in my list of upcoming events.

I would think that if I signup for someone else, the system should never take my user id into account. This could be determined by the email address entered into the signup field. If it is the logged in users email address, link the user_id to the record. If I enter a different persons email address treat it like an anonymous signup and do not connect it to my account?

This would allow me to signup for someone else in a transparent way. Let me know if that might be something that could be improved and I can try to fix it.

Cheers,
Ulf

Ulf,

Are you using the latest version? There is an ajax user/volunteer search function now that allows you to find and sign-up for others easily from the front end (when you are logged in as admin or sign-up sheet manager now)… if you now do it that way, it will store the correct user id for the person that you sign-up for the form, and then the task and clear link will show on their list when they are signed in to their user account.

Just start typing in the first name or last name field of the sign-up form while you are logged in, and you’ll see some results pop under that you can select (if there are any matches).

Thanks for getting back.

I saw the lookup query while entering the name.
However my situation is different in that the persons I signup for are not users in wordpress. I enable my sheets for public signup and these persons are not stored in the system.

Maybe this is a corner case that sets my user_id incorrectly.

Thanks,
Ulf

Yes, that is how it works… if it’s not a user, then how else would my plugin know who the guest visitor is to show them their own clear links? It simply stores a user ID for the matching user, or whomever is logged in at the time (when no matching user).

Not much I can do about your specific situation as there is no way for me to track these guests/visitors safely, unless you want them to create logins and passwords, in which case, that’s what a WordPress user account is for. =)

Hm,

I guess you refer to the situation when the options require a person to be logged in. In this case storing a user_id might make sense even if it is mine. But I refer to the situation where the option “Login required?” is set to false.

If a guest signs up (without logging in) then the code also has no access to a user_id and stores the signup as is without user_id (the field user_id is 0). The guest has of course no “clear” link, but I as admin or a user having the right permission has access to the clear link for this signup.

If I as a logged in user sign up in behalf for another person I would expect exactly the same behavior, meaning my user_id is not listed in the guests signup record.
Right now my user id is listed in their signup records if I sign up for them in their behalf. If they sign up by them self, it is not listed (field user_id is 0).

Here the code that makes sense from my point of view

if (login required == true) {
   validate entered information.
   Store current users id in field user_id if the entered data can not be correlated to any user  in WP.
}
else {
   validate entered information.
   if ( entered information can be correlated to a user) {
      store that entered users id in field user_id.
   } else {
      store 0 in field user_id.
   }
}

Cheers,
Ulf

No, I understand what you are saying about not requiring user accounts and the signups.

The code is designed to get the current user id if there is one from the form, otherwise it uses the current user id (which would be you, in this case). Some people like that feature, because if the admin is managing all the sign-ups, then they also have a nice list of signups on the front end main signup page that they can easily clear, if needed, as opposed to hunting through individual sheets in the back end to find the signup they need to clear.

Perhaps that can be another option/setting for a future update.

Oh, now I understand.

This is a feature for the admin rather than a bug.

Thanks,
Ulf