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Hello, I usually have success googling most of my issues and finding a resolution. however this time I am not having any luck.  I would think this would be something that could be easily fixed, but for some reason I just can't seem to figure it out or find any options for this in CiviCRM.

Let me explain how I am using CiviCRM:
I am using CiviCRM on a site that allows people to register for classes that are throughout the year, and if they pre-register early they get a discount, which the discount by sign up date works perfectly for.  There are also two event costs, a default cost that is available to the authenticated class(in drupal), but I also need a second cost that should only be available to a "member" class with drupal. 

I tried adding a second cost to the event fees, which seems to work if I want to manually add the participants and as long as the early sign-up dates at still in affect.  Once the current date is no longer discounted, it gives the end user the option to choose either two of the classes.  If I were able to hide the second displayed cost from the end user, I could even use this as a temporary solution and register the "member" class manually, since there are not too many of them as it is.

So now that I have described what I am trying to achieve, my question is:

Is there a easy way to set up event fees to discount event costs based on a role that is defined in drupal, as well as discounting by signup dates?

Thanks for your time in reading this post, any advice will be greatly appreciated!


Drupal Version: 6.15
CiviCRM Version: 3.0.3

It seems that using hooks may be the only way to get civiCrm to do what I need.  I am still pretty new to Drupal and my coding experience is fairly limited.  I will give this a try, Thanks Lobo!