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I have installed CiviCRM 1.8 and am currently evaluating whether it is suitable for our organisation.

The core functionality seems very good and will most likely meet our requirements.

We would also require a lot of Event related functionality - I would like to ask a couple of questions to see whether the functionality exists and I missed it, or if it is planned for an future release.

We would be having several hundred events in the database and would like to store various event related information.

1. It does not seem possible to query for events only. The Manage Events page only lists all events in a table, and Find Participants well finds participants. Is it possible to add a 'Find Events' query? This would enable more detailed searching for events.

2. When using Find Partcipants the Event Name field is a drop down - this will not be very scalable with several hundred events in the database.

3. Find Participants -> Event type and Advanced Search -> Event Type both seem to use a hard coded list of event types as they are not displaying the custom Event Types I have added.

4. I read somewhere that nested events and recurring events are coming in 2.0 - is this true?


Any feedback appreciated
Thanks
Keith

Hi, thanks for the response.

1. When you say adding a Find Events page is easy do you mean we should do it ourselves in php? If we do this (most likely would have to contract someone) would you accept the patch back into CiviEvent? Can you point me in the direction of documentation to look at to make this change.

2. Whether the select box is dynamically loaded or not, it will still be hard to use with many hundreds of events. I suppose this was just another of saying I think a Find Events page is needed ;-)

3. Have reproduced and logged as CRM-2250

4. Thanks for the lists.

Cheers
Keith

We have fixed http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2250, fix will be available in next revision release of 1.8

kurund