Author Topic: event registration (Read 676 times)

julianbrelsford · February 09, 2010, 09:01:01 am

We want to allow people to sign up for civicrm events, given
1. most of them are already in our database
2. they may be listed (correctly) in our database as having an e-mail address that belongs to two or more people (family members)
3. no drupal/civicrm username or password has been created yet for 99% of these constituents
4. if possible, we want event registrants to have their registration connected to the existing CiviCRM record we have for them*
5. currently using drupal 6 with civicrm 3.0.2

*imported from our other database

If you know how to approach this problem, please give suggestions about how to get it solved.

Kiran Jagtap · February 09, 2010, 09:43:08 pm

hi julianbrelsford,

Basically we has to have some contact field which uniquely identify given contact from database.
( here in your case one email address might be attach to group of contacts )

lets assume first name and last name w/ which we can identify contact from db.

1. create profile w/ first name and last name and enable this profile for event registration.
2. enable 'Allow multiple registrations from the same email address' feature. ( Manage Events -> Configure Event -> Online Registration )
3. Edit your Individual 'Strict' dedupe rule to respect your profile fields. ( Administer CiviCRM ->Manage ->Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts )

Now when you register participant you are collecting some individual data w/ profile, system use those data to find existing contact from database if contact found, register participant record get connected to found contact record otherwise new contact record get create.

hope this help

kiran

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