Send an reminder invitation of an event

[jaapjansma]

Hey,

Is it possible to send out a reminder to a group of contacts but exclude those who are a participant of an certain event?

[Donald Lobo]

i suspect u'll have to create a group with those contacts outside the scheduled reminder framework and then send a reminder to that group

lobo

[jaapjansma]

That wouldn't work because the reminders we want to sent our not scheduled at all. They occur when the organiser thinks they should.

[Eileen]

I think Pete uses the 'in group. not in group custom search'. I actually wrote a patch to allow advanced search to search by 'does not have tag' - might be some extra challenges to extend that idea to not-in-group (& I don't know that the patch got into core anyway - I think it's stalled)

[joanne]

Perhaps you didn't include enough detail in your first post. If the reminder is not scheduled it just becomes a Civimail action.

Civimail already lets you send to one group but exclude members of a second group.

How much admin access does the organiser?

How many are likely to be in the group?

[jaapjansma]

Hey Joanne,

We can use CiviMail and we can put the target audience in a smart group but we don't want to create a group for every event containing the registered contacts.

[Eileen]

But - you can send civimails from advanced search results can't you?

[jaapjansma]

Ah yes but then the same question applies, how do I find everyone who is in a group but not registered as a participant for an event

[Eileen]

ah right

[joanne]

Ah well, I'm out of the discussion as talk will have to turn to a code solution now.

[jaapjansma]

Ok. I can figure out a code solution as i am a developer. I will see if it is then still a priority and worth spending time on.