Gig Notes – Is this Possible?
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I’ve got a question – back before GigPress was acquired, I had contacted Derek and asked if this was possible, but he told me the software couldn’t do this. I’m wondering with an acquisition, and a couple of updates if anything has changed.
I’m looking for something that I call “Gig Notes”. Basically what I’m looking for is the ability to define a “note” that will appear across all columns in tour. If you look at this screen capture, you’ll see what I’m talking about. This is from my “old format” tour dates history. I’m slowly moving the data into Gigpress, but it’s slow going – I have to do it by hand. But I like these notes which show relevant events around a tour, which aren’t an actual GIG as such.
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/kqhCt
Those yellow notes that span all the columns is something I can’t figure out how to replicate in Gigpress. I don’t want to lose that, so I was hoping someone has an idea how to do that.
It would be really nice to have “Gig Notes” built into the software. If this is possible, how do I do it?
Using WordPress 4.8, and Gigpress 2.3.18. Thanks.
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I tried a few ideas. First, my idea was to create a gig with the city and venue name of just a space. But unfortunately I can’t enter my own countries, so I’m forced to pick a country from the dropdown. My idea was to put a “space” for the info there. It’s not the best solution, but it would allow me to create a “gig” that isn’t an actual gig, and just display the notes.
I also tried going into the templates to try and have it only display the date and the notes if the venue and city name were both just a space, but it was beyond me. So much for that idea.
Or heck, is there anything in the code to JUST display the notes from a gig and nothing else (except the date I imagine)? I would love that. Would solve my problems if that existed.
Here you can see me playing around with it. Here’s what I did in Gigpress to try and come up with “Gig Notes” within the current structure.
http://www.black-sabbath.com/tourdates/1987tour2/
This is my old format, what I’m trying to replicate here – the notes that span the columns.
I figured out a way on my own!
1) For the “Gig Notes” I created a special csv with just those entries. Technically they’re in the system as “gigs”, but for the purposes of displaying to the end user, they won’t look like that.
2) In the CSV, I added just these fields.
a) Date
b) Artist
c) Notes
d) Tour
e) Status3) That allowed the gig to be imported with no venue, no city, and no country. They displayed blank.
4) I then used CSS to force the note text to be displayed in what would be the line where city/venue/country would be. This is what I made the notes look like:
<div class="gignote" style="margin-top: -34px;"> <span><b><font color="green">Notes Go here</font></b></span> </div>It works! It would however be nice to have it so the software would just allow you to check a mark, and it would show only the notes. But my hack here got around that, I suppose. BTW you can put whatever color you want for green I suppose. 🙂
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