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I recommend you add to your non production server and test.

One of my sites has been having the same contact written over several times because the same email address had been used in each registration. The only way to tell this has happened is to go through the receipts. I know there is a feature to handle multiple registrations under the same email address but I don't want to use this.

THE FIX (for 4.2.7)
/CRM/Event/Form/Registration/Register.php
LINE: 1457
FIND $participant->role_id = $self->_values['event']['default_role_id'];REPLACE WITH //$participant->role_id = $self->_values['event']['default_role_id'];
UPDATED PATCH TO STOP DUPLICATE REGISTRATIONS EVEN IF THE DUPLICATE ROLE IS DIFFERENT
By commenting out the $participant->role_id it will disable role checking and just use participant status to check if the participant is already registered.

Hi Yashodha

Thanks for looking at this.

Your fix works until the user logs in, then regardless of what role the Oops! message is shown disallowing the user the register with another role.

I still think the multiple role registration needs work.
Its too easy for someone to use a single email address and register one or more participants which will result in only the last participants contact record being captured.

Some suggestions:

1. Add a notice such as: "you are already registered as a XXX if you would like to register with an additional role click continue"
2. Add multiple role select as an option for the form profile.

I would like to disable multiple role registration so is my above code change any good to achieve this?

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