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    • #12701
      Kriona Hagen
      Participant

      I would like to use the PTA sign up sheet plugin to handle signups for hockey scrimmages. I downloaded it today and tried it out. It seems to work fairly well, and should handle my use case. I can specify 26 spots for skaters and 2 spots for goalies. Everyone who is playing in these scrimmages will have a user account and an appropriate role, so I’m able to hide the post with sign-up shortcode for people who can’t play.

      A wait list feature would ensure that spots don’t go unfilled – if someone cancels last minute, it would be nice to promote the next person into one of the available spots (and send them an email).

    • #12703
      Stephen Sherrard
      Keymaster

      Thanks for posting. Unfortunately, this (like many other feature requests) is most likely not something I will add anytime soon. It is far from a simple feature and would require quite a bit of additional code modification and additional custom database table fields and database functions. Plus, this is a fairly unique request and probably not something most other users of the plugin would need.

      However, couldn’t you just add an additional “waiting list” item to the signup sheet that people could sign-up for after the other positions are filled? Yes, it would require some manual work on your part to notify them (or to sign them up with the admin feature that lets you live search for user and sign them up yourself).

      If an automated solution is something you absolutely need, we can always discuss programming a custom add-on plugin for you, but wouldn’t be quick/easy or cheap.

    • #12710
      Kriona Hagen
      Participant

      Thanks for the quick reply!

      Would you be interested in collaborating on the design, me doing the development, and you maintaining the feature going forward? I have a number of other projects to finish for this hockey league, so I don’t expect to get to it soon, but I’d like to mull over my options in the mean time.

    • #12721
      Stephen Sherrard
      Keymaster

      I’m certainly open to discussing all possibilities with you, and I have accepted code contributions to the main (free) plugin from other developers in the past. I see this as being more of an add-on extension, though, as opposed to something hard-coded into the main plugin. The main plugin has a LOT of action/filter hooks included already to make it very easy to extend.

      I would suggest contacting me privately when you are ready, and we can discuss via regular email or phone. Use the contact form, or just put stephen in front of my domain name for my email address.

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