Author Topic: Delete just first of multiple participants? (Read 952 times)

bokabu · December 15, 2009, 11:39:54 pm

I just discovered that I cannot delete just the first of multiple participants. Is there a way to avoid/break this feature so that additional participants can stay registered?

I have a profile affiliated with the registration. I have discovered (and enforce with hooks) that every registrant must register themselves first (lest they instead cause their own profile to be changed). I want "team managers" to be able to come in a second time and register more team members, but since they then create a duplicate event record, I want to be able to go clean it up later. The "all or none" participant deletion keeps me from doing that.

Any clues would be appreciated.

- Bob

Eileen · December 16, 2009, 01:26:35 am

Or even better if people could register others without registering themselves? That would be really handy! It would solve your problem and a handful of others - like parents registering kids for things

Donald Lobo · December 16, 2009, 07:08:52 am

this has been on the wishlist for some time. would be great for someone to step up and either contribute the code or sponsor the core team to do this. i suspect its a 50 hour or so project

lobo

bokabu · December 17, 2009, 11:30:08 pm

For now, I'll be breaking the official binding between the primary registrant and their minions by periodically invoking

UPDATE civicrm_participant SET source=registered_by_id,registered_by_id=NULL WHERE registered_by_id IS NOT NULL;

That lets me keep the "registered_by_id" in the previously NULL source in case I want to look at it with phpMyAdmin later, but NULLs out the registered_by_id, thereby breaking the link.

I tried this and it works, but I'm relying on left-to-right execution order for UPDATE, and I've not found documentation that assures me that's guaranteed.

- Bob

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