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I would like to create an event that is only open to certain groups, such as "advisory board" or "Gold Member".  I'd like to make sure that the participant role is verified through the system and not just by hiding the event, so if someone emails the link to another user, they would not be able to register for the event.

Is this covered in the civicrm acl mechanism or drupal?  I've seen "participant role" appear as an option when you set up an event, but it does not appear in the demo - not sure it that is an add-on capability.

I appreciate the assistance.

S.

Dave - i appreciate your quick assistance! 

Frankly, I'm evaluating civicrm/drupal for a small non-profit for internationals.  We may have events that are open to one group but not another.  With our current system we might marketing an event for Spanish people but italians would sign up.  we also have events for targeted age groups.

Ideally, we would only show the event in the CMS and newsletter if it was available to that target group, but we are also really concerned about someone getting a link and forwarding it.

I imagine this is a pretty common scenario:  restricting an event by group.

I tried to implement your suggestion here using the demo and created a profile with a custom field but was unable to see how to actually link that to the event.  I'm also not sure what the downside is - will that partially solve this?

I wish i could make a contribution to solving this at this time, but i'm not a programmer and just in the evaluation phase.  Do you expect this capability would be added to civicrm at some point?  Is it a big deal?  is there a work-around?

I'm so impressed with this software, and the community and hope that our organization will soon be equipped to make a contribution.

Thanks Dave.

I think that would be very handy for some of our future plans, but for this group segmentation, we want some sort of permission model tied to membership group.  We also don't want to wait for these changes and it looks like there is some question of stability.

Sounds like our only resort would be to pay a developer to support this and have it merged into the code base.  I'm not CiviCrm savvy enough to know how to spec this, but it sounds like there are a variety of ways to approach it.  Perhaps even leveraging drupal?

Any suggestions on how we would go about setting this up?

I really appreciate your attention and applaud your commitment to the community.