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I am looking for some input on how to capture activity reports from our staff in Nicaragua.  One of our major programs involves Sustainable Tourism where we have groups come down for multiple weeks for service work and tourism activities.  We will be using CiviEvents for managing most aspects of planning trips and capturing volunteer information and payments.  Each event has multiple activities which are led by our staff onsite.  Upon completion of said activities they provide critical information for us to measure the social and environmental impacts on the local community and our volunteers.  Right now that is a word form, which is unstructured and rudimentary.  I am trying to figure what the best method for capturing this information is.  There would be multiple activities associated with a single event.  For example:
Day 1 may be planting trees with local community
Day 2 may be teaching English, etc...

Would want to create a separate activity, associated with the overarching event, for each of those.

I would like to create a form in Civi to capture this information and associate it with an event.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Brandon
Joomla 1.7
CiviCRM 4.08

The activity is per participant or global to the event?

eg do you want a global "what happened with the tree planting on day2"? or details per participant on how each did with their tree?

Another option you might consider is to use case (basically, a "project") each event would be a case, that you can pre-populate with each activity for each day (with a status scheduled) in one click (the timeline) and then your staff can edit each activity, add the details of what happened, change the status to completed (or something else) and voila, you got your case tracking all that