Author Topic: Parent-Child (Read 692 times)

mward · October 07, 2012, 01:01:16 am

Hello,

I am new to CiviCRM, and so far I think its a great product, but I am having some trouble wrapping my head around some of the finer points. My case is as follows:

A parent signs a child up to an event. Sounds simple, but can't seem to get it working.

What I have done thus far is to create a "child" profile which contains the following information:
Child First Name
Child Last Name
Child Birthdate
Height
Weight

I have also created an Account Holder Profile which contains the following:
Parent First Name
Parent Last Name
Address Info (Street, City, State, Zip)
Phone
Email

Several of these are custom fields, including basically all of the child fields. All of the child fields were also created into a new Individual account called "Child".
I do not have payment processors set up yet, but have disabled email confirmations and checked the pay later option. I have also checked the allow multiple registrants per email address check box.

I went through the registration process twice, one for each child. However, when I go to search the record, it only shows one childs information there. While this is not as much an issue, it also does not display child information in the Event or Activity logs.

I want to be able to keep track of all the children who were registered. Am I doing this totally wrong? CiviCRM is pretty complex, and I decided to set them up as individuals instead of Households. Is that the issue here?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am CIVICRM illterate!

mward · October 07, 2012, 03:12:24 am

So I have been googling answers to this specific issue, and I have yet to uncover anything recent. There have been people with similar cases in the past, but that was a year or two ago. I am wondering if this kind of support has since been built into CiviCRM 4.2

I've been playing around a bit with the interface, and have created a Child and Parent membership type. Not sure how useful that is going to be, but interestingly enough, there is a "Child of" and "Parent of" in the Member Type. Anyone know what that does or how to use it?

The only thing I can think of at this point is to do a fuzzy dedupe to remove the e-mail as a criteria, and then have the Parent simply register the children for the event. However, if I do this, parents wont be registering their own information during event registration, which means that they won't be in the database and represents issues for user tracking.

Any ideas?
By the way, I am integrating with the most recent version of Wordpress.

Donald Lobo · October 07, 2012, 08:50:06 am

no direct support for this as yet in 4.2

A few options, check:

1. http://civicrm.org/blogs/sarahgladstone/new-extension-creating-relationships-durring-event-registration

2. If you are using drupal, depending on your event reg needs, webform_civicrm is a good alternative. With some custom coding, you can pretty much make things fit your specific needs

lobo

mward · October 07, 2012, 09:24:32 am

Thanks very much lobo. I had actually stumbled upon this extension last night, and with a little trial and error got it to work.

Speaking of, do you have any idea about the "Your extensions directory does not have a matching Extensions Resource URL" error that comes up on every page since I enabled it?

Donald Lobo · October 07, 2012, 05:23:24 pm

great that you could get it to work. would help a lot if u comment on that blog post and say what u had to tweak to get it to work. joe and sarah will be thrilled

click on the extensions url and enter a url that can be used to load extension based resources. Not too many extensions use this feature as yet, but i suspect more and more developers will start using it

lobo

mward · October 08, 2012, 11:21:31 am

Thanks Lobo, I will put it here too.

I have had difficulty in Wordpress regarding the links that get created for Live Events. They never seem to work...they try to add data to the page, but instead just redisplay the page. I haven't figured that part out yet, but I did find that the link could be reached like so:
mysite.org/wordpress/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&page_id=4&reset=1&id=1&noFullMsg=true

The problem with reaching it this way is that all of the Tell A Friend and campaigning features will not work since they are automatically generated.

As for the Enhanced registration event extension, it worked for the Demo Links in order to test, but when generating a live link, it would fail with an Internal Server Error 500. The reason has something to do with plugin code firing before Wordpress code does. It was resolved by adding the following line to the top of the .php files in the extension folder: include_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/pluggable.php');

This brings me back to where I started as far as getting it to generate proper links, but at least it works now.

Lobo, if you have any information regarding the link generation not working in Wordpress, I would greatly appreciate it if you would share that with me, Thanks!

Donald Lobo · October 08, 2012, 04:26:23 pm

can you reproduce the link generation not working on our wordpress demo server

thanx

lobo

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