TOPIC: Repeating / recurring event: Ideas?

I need to setup an event that recurs every Thursday during the summer. DT Register has a nice function for such events, BUT this time I need the customer see the event, and then from a dropdown menu select which date he/she wants to book (not a long list of alltogether separate events).

This should be easy enough by creating ONE event with a imaginative date far in the future. To this event I add a dropdown field with selection limits, for instance Thursday June 5th|Thursday June 12th| and so on, with every selection taking for instance 8 bookings ( 8|8|... ). Then I hide the date of the created event everywhere (should be able to do that should I not?). To see who has registered for which Thursday, I then do a CSV export once in a while and sort the rows by the date dropdown selection.

1. Does anyone think of an easier way of doing this?
2. Does this seem all right, or an you see technical problems with this kind of solution? Of course, I will not get the dates into the calendar but this I can take.


Thanks,

Ben

I've run into this kind of issue before. Going down the path you are thinking about, leads to messy .csv exports that are hard to follow.

If it were me, I'd suggest making the repeating events normally, then building a different entry point.

For instance, you could put all the events in a category, then display that category only, making the person choose the date up front.