Remove email and telephone mandatory fileds

[Gianluca]

Hi Alexis, Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use your application (GREAT!) for my brother who is starting a little studio for physiotherapist.

He doesn't want people book appointments, he just wants to input himself and use only the backend part.

It will be great to remove the mandatory fields for email and telephone number because a lot of older people do not have email e maybe also the telephone.

Do you think there is a fast way to change these fields to non mandatory ?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english :)

Have a nice day! 

[Craig Tucker]

Go to the appointments view file and remove the tags for those fields.  Or remove the "required" from the tag.  Look in application/views/appointments/book.php and find the tags there.

[Gianluca]

Hi Craig, many thanks! Tnoite I'm going to check it and I will give you a feedback asap ! Have a nice day !

[Gianluca]

Hi Craig,

I've modified this way (book.php) removing the tag "required":

<div class="form-group">

                                    <label for="email" class="control-label"><?php echo $this->lang->line('email'); ?> *</label>

                                    <input type="text" id="email" class="form-control" maxlength="250" />

                                </div>

                                <div class="form-group">

                                    <label for="phone-number" class="control-label"><?php echo $this->lang->line('phone_number'); ?> *</label>

                                    <input type="text" id="phone-number" class="form-control" maxlength="60" />

                                </div>

I've made this also on settings.php but it doesn't work unfortunately... Have any more ideas ?  Hanx!

[Gianluca]

customer_model.php ???

[Gianluca]

app/application/models/Customers_model.php

[Gianluca]

I've tried to edit app/application/models/Customers_model.php but everything breaks ...:(

[Alex Tselegidis]

Hello Gianluca, unfortunately email cannot be an optional field as it's the only evidence that a user is unique. By using the email the app can aggregate appointment information for each customer and help admins handle their own customer info.  

There is a "quick & dirty" workaround though which can be applied in order to remove these fields from the mandatory list: 

1. Remove the "required" attributes from the view files

2. Set empty email values to "empty-{timestamp}@example.org" in appointments and backend controller callbacks (this way models will continue working without issues). 

3. Adjust email validation in JS files so that they also accept empty emails.

I hope I haven't forgot any step but post in this thread if something else breaks :) 

Alex Tselegidis, Easy!Appointments Creator   Need a customization? Contact me in person!

[Gianluca]

Many Thanks Alex, I'll try it out during this week end and I'll give you a feedback about.

[Gianluca]

Hi, but empty-{timestamp} is to be defined at mysql level ? Thanks!

[Alex Tselegidis]

I would add this logic in PHP-level as its easier (time function).

[Gianluca]

Hi Alexis,

I've tried everywhere but I cannot find out where is the file to edit.

When you click oon the new appointment button in the main view, the new appointment form that shows up should be the appointment_details.php in application/views/email but if I try to insert some html to verify it is the right file, no changes are shown... If you could, just provide me some more hints :) on where ti put the default email timestamp ... Many Thanks !!!

[cad 9]

Hi Alex, I have asked this question also, but on Google+ It seems that it could be an issue for some clients if their customers are elderly, they don't always have email addresses :(
Would it not be better for the system to generate a unique customer number when a customer is created and allow the software to order/process the customers using this unique number rather than an email?

Just a thought.

Thanks

Steve

[Alex Tselegidis]

Hi Steve, 

that could be a solution of course but then we will not be able to detect customers with this number cause they will not enter it in the booking page. 

Regards,

Alex