Custom Wizard Use Case Question - Room/Equipment Booking

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@martyn_thomas

sadly we’re a volunteer ran organisation, so don’t have much money around for things like consultancy

Understandable. You should apply for our Community Subscription. Wizard-wise you’ll want to be going through the Custom Wizard docs

Docs

For the role restrictions (in Discourse we normally call these “Groups”) you’ll want to take a look at Wizard Permissions

Wizard Settings

Wizard settings are those that affect the behaviour of the whole wizard. You’ll find them in the first settings block in your “Wizard” admin panel. [image] Required When disabled, users see an “Exit” link in the footer of the first step of the wizard. If they click the link they’ll be taken to the forum homepage. Signup When enabled, users are automatically redirected to the wizard after they create an account (after signing up or accepting an invite). Users will not be redirected after sig…

And you’ll probably need some conditional settings

Conditional Settings

Conditional settings behave differently depending on the conditions you give them. You can spot conditional settings by their grey border. [image] Each condition can have 3 parts [image] A type A set of key-value pairs (see “Pairs and Connectors” below) An output. Different condition types have different combinations of these parts. Types There are four types of conditional fields. For each conditional field, you typically can only select one or two types. Conditional (“If”) If the key…

Then for event creation itself, you’ll be wanting to use the Post Builder in the Create Topic action.

Action Settings

Each wizard can have multiple actions. Each action has its own settings. [image] Add, remove and re-arrange You can add, remove and re-arrange actions using the controls below “Actions”. The text in (brackets) is the action id (e.g. “action_1”). You may need to know that for some Conditional fields. [image] Type Create Topic This creates a new topic with given inputs. A title and post must be present for the action to be performed. Title. Conditional field with alternatives. Post. Yo…

Sounds like you’ll need multiple create topic actions tied to multiple conditional steps.