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Perhaps a really silly question, but... where do you create the discounts? I can't see any different functionality in CiviEvent and in a user profile I can see a tab for "Codes Redeemed". But where do you create the codes?

Thanks
Ed

Thanks - and now the inevitable follow up question - how/where does the event participant/potential member enter the discount code. What do I have to do - create a profile in the page (in which case which field?) or do something in the price set?

There is no automatically added field in contribution pages for the end user to take advantage of - so what must I do?

E

Thanks - oddly it didn't appear when I first loaded this page but did the second time, but even then it appears not to work.

So for example this event: https://www.marlowrowingclub.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/register&Itemid=252&id=64&reset=1

has a discount code "free" which gives a 100% discount and another "half" which gives 50% off.

When I first loaded it I didn't see a box but did get an error message coming up at the bottom:

"Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/marlow/www/www/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Event/Form/Registration/Register.php on line 255"

On a reload a box appeared at top and bottom, with the same error. Putting in invalid code in the box (correctly) brought up an error, but a valid code was accepted but didn't appear to work.  Although it was accepted, the amount demanded on the confirmation page was still the original and I was still dispatched to paypal with a demand for the full price: same result when using the "full" or "half" discounts even though for "full" I shouldn't have had to go to PayPal at all. In the back-end the code was not registered has having been used (although I didn't make the payment demanded because it was wrong).

Separately, the module itself says that it can be used for "memberships, events and price sets" - so should a box also be appearing on pages for membership registration or which use those price sets (i.e. general contribution pages?)

Finally, is the box only supposed to appear when there is a discount code available for that event, or does it appear for all events (even where there aren't any discount codes)

Thanks - happy to help with documentation of this once I understand it myself!

Ed

OK, thanks for this.

As I and others discovered, and Lobo freely admits above, it doesn't really work on 4.2, so your options are to fix it yourself, fund someone to fix it, or wait until someone else has a go.

Sorry, we'll be rolling it back and calling it an alpha release

It was actually quite stable for 4.1 where we are using it in production but a few too many other underlying changes in 4.2

We'll see if anyone at the sprint is interested in working on it. We suspect this is a 20-25 hour project to fix all bugs and get it to work a lot better with "4.2 style pricesets". FYI, we did have an MIH for this in 4.x series but did not get any interest

lobo

Incidentally for the record the URL for getting this going for Joomla users is:

....administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/cividiscount&reset=1

The URL given further up the thread is for Drupal.

Where would I find that readme and the files? I had someone who was going to take a look to see if they could get it working enough so we could use it for what we needed, and it looks like I should grab the newest files and that readme so she can work with those.