The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Allow for alternative terms to describe the capacity unit of a registration type.
Whilst the word 'slot' is a good general term; it does lack flexibility and would be inappropriate for many use-cases.
For example
Ticket, room, place, seat, table, space, booth
Such a feature would need to allow for plurality. Is it acceptable to Just add 's'? What about exceptions?
Tickets, rooms, spots, places, seats, tables, spaces, booths
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Comments
Comment #1
dpiI don't think I've seen this kind of functionality before in other modules. Why cant the strings in Registration be `translated`?
I think slots is used because its so generic, and can mean anything you want it to be.
Comment #2
mrpauldriver commentedSimply to allow less technical users such as myself a bit of flexibility. And also to allow for a broader vocabulary depending upon the registration type.
I think that describing every capacity unit of every registration type, as a slot, suggests that they are all the same. Just as in language, we have different units of quantity depending on the medium being measured. Miles versus gallons for example.
In the use-case of a trade fair, you need to register exhibitors, visitors, speakers, contractors, press and so on. So therefore you might have booths, tickets, time slots and passes all being associated with the same entity. Whilst the descriptions can be list fields or taxonomy terms; referring them all as slots at the UI level, is in my opinion, too generic.
Perhaps this feature request is really for a sub-module. 'Registration Slot Alias' perhaps.
Comment #3
levelos commentedThere are number of ways to translate strings in Drupal and/or change labels using hook_form_alter(). Sorry, but not going to include this in the core module, at least for now.
Comment #3.0
levelos commentedtypo