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Peer support for CiviCRM in class registration / event registration context?

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geilhufe:

--- Quote ---David - Thanks for the quick reply.  Your answer raises another issue - we allow "anonymous" (to use Drupal's term) class registrations.  I.e. you don't need to create a Drupal account on our site to register and pay for a class.  We are actually considering moving in that direction, but then the big question is - how do we manage / migrate all the existing users in  CiviCRM?
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Well, there just was added a feature where you can make a CiviCRM profile create a drupal user on submit. Avoids the user having to create a drupal account. I have not used it yet, so not sure exactly how to structure this. I also don't think the docs have caught up yet, so you'll have to play with it.

Dave Greenberg:

--- Quote from: geilhufe on September 26, 2007, 12:39:47 pm ---I also don't think the docs have caught up yet, so you'll have to play with it.

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Docs are now updated. Feature requires Drupal 5.x and takes some playing with if you want to use it in a "Standalone Profile form" (check for posts on this forum if this is what you need).

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/How+to+Create+Profiles

geilhufe:
Didn't mean to create work for you Dave :)

Thanks though,

smokinggoat:

--- Quote from: geilhufe on September 26, 2007, 12:39:47 pm ---Well, there just was added a feature where you can make a CiviCRM profile create a drupal user on submit. Avoids the user having to create a drupal account. I have not used it yet, so not sure exactly how to structure this. I also don't think the docs have caught up yet, so you'll have to play with it.

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Thanks to both of you for these suggestions.  We're looking at this solution, although to be honest it'll take me a while to work through the specifics of it.  Will this tool allow us to migrate the dozens (100+?) of existing CiviCRM profiles - people who come back for more than one class - to Drupal accounts; or does it just more easily create Drupal accounts when a new CiviCRM profile is created (in an event registration, for example)?

As for the "pending" being counted in the totals - that's completely a user error. I missed the "status" radio box in the Contrib search page, and was pulling up "all" contributions, not just completed.

By the way - we hooked up with Tryon Farm (linked in the case study list).  Turns out they do offer classes, and use CiviCRM for event reg and payment.  So we've made a useful connection there.  :-)

geilhufe:
OK, slight language disconnect. A CiviCRM profile is a collection of fields. You don't really create a profile, you use a profile to create or update a record in CiviCRM.

This does not help you deal with the the people that have already registered for classes. JUST new folks going through the profile. In general, if you want the user to update their own records, you want to make sure they have a Drupal login.

The drupal account+profile solution would work best with a fresh batch or registrations.

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