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Greetings all,

I have a site where visitors should be able to "follow" an event: essentially we want to build a mailing list for an event, so that we can deliver information about the event to those who might not want to come but may be interested in the subject matter.  It seems desirable to have a participant record created for these registrations, with a status of "Event Follower"

We also want a simple, one-page form that will allow someone to provide only an e-mail address to become an event follower.  We don't want them to have to go through the entire event registration process.

I'm not seeing anything in the documentation about building custom event flows.  Looking at the API this would be a relatively easy code task (we are already writing a custom Drupal module for this site).  Again I think the goal here is to create a participant record for these types of registrants, but I'm open to other ideas.

Thanks a bunch,
Robert

I agree, "followers" arent really participants.  What I'm trying to do is provide an easy way for the organization to create an event and then target these followers.  I don't want them to have to create a mailing list group for every event in order to target these followers.  Thus I'm thinking that storing them as participant records with a specific status is going to be the less-overhead solution for the organization in the end -- and only create a little coding work for us.

Unless there is a better configuration option I haven't discovered or dreamed up yet.. 

Would another option would be to look at setting up something on the Drupal side for the 'followers' to join/subscribe to, then it becomes self-service via Notifications - esp if you considered using OGs (but then I just go on and on about OGs being the solution for lots of things but there will inevitably be gotchas if you go that route - but ......