Stop burying the lead

[eileenmcnaughton]

Overview

Re-order field display on ManageEvent Info screen

I've been configuring a few event forms & find it kinda hard to find the most important fields - which I've kinda defined as the required fields - in particular the Event Title feels to me like the MOST important field - and it is number 5 after 'Participant Listing'

Also the start & end dates are important to have up front because start date is a required field & cos they are so easily misconfigured & the misconfiguration can block registrations that putting them in front of people's eyes seems helpful

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I was tempted to bring up max participants too - but then that can lead into waitlist & such like

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[aydun]

Makes far more sense. Why didn't anyone do this years ago?!

[eileenmcnaughton]

@aydun that is an interesting question

[totten]

Makes far more sense. Why didn't anyone do this years ago?!

At some point, we all decided that HTML was scary.

[colemanw]

I think there are probably a lot more “easy wins” like this that user-feedback could generate. We just need a better communication channel for gathering user-feedback.

[TychoSchottelius]

I have some user feedback for you here:
the changes in the order make total sense except for one thing that confuses a large organization in our company:
if there are event templates, the selection field for them is now displayed in fourth place. If you work through the form from top to bottom, selecting the template overwrites or deletes several entries that you have previously made.
Before, the templates, if there were any, were displayed at the top, which was quite useful for processing.
if you, Eileen, could imagine restoring this, I can have it financed.

[totten]

Yes! I've had the same confusion. If the "Template" is going to reset everything (which is perfectly reasonable), then it needs to come first.

[eileenmcnaughton]

@TychoSchottelius are you suggesting you would put up a patch to move the template to the top? Seems OK if that is what you are suggesting

[TychoSchottelius]

Yes, Eileen, if think so. I will pass this to Dominic and he will come back with a batch for this.
thank you for the quick response!