Tasks and task signup placeholders

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When defining a task, a huge amount of work goes into the definition/layout of the task signup form and the mails being send when someone signs up for a task, cancels a signup or the signup gets deleted. EME provides you with simple defaults, which you can either adapt globally or per event.
These mails can contain placeholders to make your life easier.

Task placeholders

When you want to visualize task info (either in a task signup form, in the task signup mails sent to a person or the online info on task signups), you can use all event placeholders and the following:

  • #_TASKNAME displays the name of the task
  • #_TASKID displays the ID of the task, this can e.g. be used in the shortcode eme_taskssignups (taskid=#_TASKID option) per task and use an extra template option if you ever want to change the layout of signups per event
  • #_TASKDESCRIPTION displays the task description
  • #_TASKSTARTDATE or #_TASKBEGIN returns the task start datetime. You can optionally provide a datetime argument to change the output format to your liking §php datetime format). Example: #_TASKBEGIN{j M H:i}
  • #_TASKENDDATE or #_TASKEND returns the task end datetime. You can optionally provide a datetime argument to change the output format to your liking §php datetime format). Example: #_TASKEND{j M H:i}
  • #_TASKSPACES returns the total number of spaces defined for this task
  • #_FREETASKSPACES returns the number of free spaces for this task
  • #_USEDTASKSPACES returns the number of used spaces for this task
  • #_TASKSIGNUPS returns a simple list of signups for this task. The layout can be changed in the EME settings. You can also use [ eme_taskssignups taskid=#_TASKID] per task and use an extra template option if you ever want to change the layout of signups per event.
  • #_USER_IS_REGISTERED returns 1 if the current logged in user is registerd for this task, 0 otherwise

Signup placeholders

For task signups info (mails), all the placeholders used for people and tasks (see above) can be used. Next to those, you can use the following 2 placeholders in a mail so people can cancel a task signup:

  • #_TASKSIGNUPCANCEL_URL returns a url to cancel the signup for this task. This can be used to create your own clickable links
  • #_TASKSIGNUPCANCEL_LINK returns a clickable link to cancel the signup for this task
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