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Hi,

One client has tried several time, and for big events, the internet connection in the venue is often too flaky to handle properly the registrations (generating the badges, updating the status, registering a new participant on the spot...). Beside, when you have a line of people waiting for their badges, you really really can't deal with the risk that you can't create a new participant for 3 min because the site is unreachable. Participants are prone to go postal, can't put my colleagues at the registration desk at risk

The idea would be to download civicrm and the database copy and install it on a local computer, and have the registration desks working on a private lan connecting to that server.

It would mean that it would be done on a local server, so fast and no connection issue. It also means that you would need to synchronise at one point or another what has changed on the local server (new contact, update of status of participants, new participants).

The most brutal approach would be to put the "master" database in read only for the duration of the event, then restore the copy as from the local copy after the event.

It should in theory be possible to sync more automatically (assuming the master copy won't touch the event/participant), but sync databases is always a messy/scary business.

Any suggestion how to solve it?

Again,the internet connection is very unlikely to be stable enough to do the registration with the server over the net, it really should be locally installed.

Over to you...

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