DPCalendar has an advanced location management. A location represents a place on earth with a latitude and longitude, a human readable address, custom fields support and multiple rooms definition. An event itself can be assigned to multiple locations and even individual rooms which makes DPCalendar unique amongst the event management extensions for Joomla.
Locations can be managed in the backend. Various filters allow to search for a specific location. Also batch editing is supported. Columns can be hidden through the columns dropdown on the right side of the table.
When editing or creating a location in the back end, then all the fields are shown, together with a map which visualizes the current location. The location lookup field does allow to quickly search for a location to get all the fields updated, including latitude and longitude.
Locations can also be edited on the front end and created on the fly when editing an event.
All locations have the following attributes that can be modified within the form:
Every location supports unlimited rooms. The rooms are used in events for the resource views. This makes it possible to not only assign an event to a location but also to a room of the location. Like that resource views can be set up which do show events in columns or rows per room.
Each room has an id which acts as reference when a room is assigned to an event. The label and description are used while rendering on the front end.
With the introduction of rooms it was possible to also introduce fully featured resource views. These views are accessible on a location or locations menu item and do visualize one or multiple locations with their rooms in a grid.
The site admin can define different options globally or per menu item for the location/s views and the form. For example can the form be put into a flat mode so the fields are shown without tabs.
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