Save data in a Custom Post Type after an action in the front-end

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Last updated by Shane 4 years, 8 months ago.

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March 10, 2020 at 2:02 pm #1545651

peterV-10

Situation:
I have a CPT "Workshops", with a custom field "Available seats".
So when someone enters this page, he'll see for example "Workshop A, available seats = 10"

What I want to accomplish:
After a visitor clicked a button "JOIN", the number of seats should decrease by 1, so that the next visitor will see "Workshop A, available seats = 9"

My question:
Is it possible to save "(current value - 1)" to the field "Available seats" of "Workshop A", after a button has been clicked?
Can I achieve this with Toolset?

Thank you!

March 10, 2020 at 3:46 pm #1545827

Shane

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Hi Peter,

Thank you for getting in touch.

You can do this with toolset by using our Hooks to decrease the value but it would need to be done manually.

For e.g you have a Form that only has the button Join on it.

When the user hits Join it will submit the form and in the Hook you will modify the custom field value.

I do recommend using a better solution like Woocommerce that will handle the quantity better because once you click on the Join/Add to Cart button then the quantity will automatically decrease and you will have some record of which user got the seat.

Thanks,
Shane