Hello,
I use event component Redevent which is based on Eventlist (RedEvent has also possibility of booking and payement inetgration, allows more "sessions" for each event in different venues. I want to integrate RedEvent events into my AcyMailing auto newsletters. I tried to change tageventlist.php plugin.

But I have one big problem. In Redevent informations about events are in two database tables (jos_redevent_events and jos_redevent_event_venue_xref), because RedEvent allows more "sessions" for each event in different venues. In Eventlist informations are just in one table (jos_eventlist_events).

My PHP and SQL knowledges are not eough to solve this. Is there any chance, you will do AcyMailing & RedEvent integration plugin???

Thank you for respond

Hello,

The RedComponent team already developed an AcyMailing integration for their e-commerce solution (RedShop). I didn't have a chance to have a look at it but I have no doubt they could also develop an integration for RedEvent.

We just sent an e-mail to the redcomponent team, I'm sure we will work together to bring this integration very soon.

John,
really than for your quick respond and for you activity. I will look forward produc of possible cooperation with Redcomponent team.

Just so you know, the redComponent team has been VERY cooperative so we have everything on our end to start this integration.
I still can not tell you any deadline but we have everything we need to start it.

Any update on this from either party?

We are working on it.

Just to keep you informed...

The plugin is almost finished, we sent it to the redComponent team so they can have a quick look at it and polish it if needed but we should be able to release this plugin in a week I guess.

You can download our beta version of the redEvent plugin for AcyMailing on our download section:
www.acyba.com/en/download/plugins-modules.html#redevent

This plugin will be free for all our users.

The tag [venues] won't be added to the event description but all the rest should do the job.

Hello John, thank you for your work! But I have this problems:
- When I use tag {redevent:XX} i get name of the event, link to event and desription. Problem is, that there are no dates
- When there are no redevent tags in event description {redevent:XX} tag works. But when there are some redevent tags, I recieve blank page after clicking to send/test button
Can I ask you for help? Thank you

I'm not a redEvent user so I can't tell you exactly how it's handled but I thought the dates was added to the description itself with a tag date, isn't it?

After posting my message, I then tested again the plugin with a new version of redEvent and it didn't work (blank page) so I adapted the code again and released a new version.
You are maybe still using the old version and that's why you got this error.
Please download again our plugin and install it... then let me know if the problem is solved.

If not, please turn on the Joomla debug mode and let me know if you see more information on the screen than just a blank screen.

I updated to recent version - still blank page. Than turn on debug and recieved:

Fatal error: Class 'RedeventHelperRoute' not found in /srv/web/virtuals/toulcuvdvur.cz/www/components/com_redevent/helpers/tags.php on line 403

Thank you for the debug trace, it helps a lot.

I can use the integration properly so I guess you added a tag which breaks the process...
Anyway, I updated again our integration, you won't get this fatal error any more.
Please download it again from our website and install it.

Please accept my apologies if you get an other error, as I'm not able to reproduce your issue, I'm not 100% sure it will be definitely fixed.
At least we will move forward and you won't get the same error.

John, thanks for you support. I followed your guidance, now i get this error:
Fatal error: Class 'JSite' not found in /srv/web/virtuals/toulcuvdvur.cz/www/components/com_redevent/helpers/route.php on line 267

I uploaded a new version again to avoid this issue.
Could you please give it a try?
If you have an other error, then please copy/paste me here the description of your event so I can use it and see if I get the same issue (so I will be able to test it until the end).

Hi again John,
now it is:
Fatal error: Class 'RedFormCore' not found in /srv/web/virtuals/toulcuvdvur.cz/www/components/com_redevent/helpers/tags.php on line 1193

Plugin updated... again

Hi John! Thank you for your support! Problem with blank page is solved. But now whole description of the event is inserted into newsletter. Is somewhere a possibility to specify, that I will insert just some redevent tags, not whole event description?
Something like specify "template" for acymailing with Redevent tags?
Now it use "template" form redevent event description with all redevent tags used in detailspage about event...
Thanks again for your support

There is no way in RedEvent to create a small Event description, isn't it?
Is there a predefined file or database entry we could use from redEvent to display the event in a Newsletter?

I'm not a redEvent user so I might not know all the tricks from redEvent but to me it sounds like the right solution to display the event description in the Newsletter.

Hi John,
there are two ways:
- you can use tag [info]- Specific venue info for selected event session
- you can create custom field (for example short_description). You can call it by redevent tag (in this case custom tag [short_description])

It could be great, if we will have a possibility in AcyMailing to chose what informations we could insert into newsletter. For example: for me it is better to insert just event title and dates and not to insert whole event description, which is too long (contains other redevent tags).

In ideal case, I would have some possibility to say, that I want to show for example:
[startenddatetime] - [event_title]
[info] or [short_description]

I thing your solution works fine for that users who don´t use redevent tags in event desription. But for us others it is too simple... And still in this case I can not see any event dates in Acymailing.... Just event name and description...

Is here some possibility?
Thank you in advance...

We created this integration for our users (You! ) so sure, there is always a possibility to add more options or to improve it.
Our goal is to meet the needs of everybody.

I just released a new version of the redEvent plugin.
You can access the plugin parameters and you will see a textarea in which you can specify an html template (maybe [info] in your case or [short_description]).
You can use redEvent tags in this area to insert information, date...
If this template is filled, then AcyMailing will use it.
If it's empty, then AcyMailing will use the event description (like on the previous version).

I hope this one will meet your needs.