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Creative problem solving
December 02, 2014, 04:55:21 pm
We are testing Civi to see if it is a good fit to automate enrollment at a preschool's Word Press site. 

We need for online users to be able to
1.  answer the same custom field set questions for multiple adults (the exact number of adults will vary)
2.  answer a different set of custom questions about the child(ren) they are enrolling (again, the number will vary)
and then to have all the resulting contacts be linked by the appropriate relationships (parent/child of and spouse/partner to). 

I found a CiviEvent extension called Youth Registration that automatically creates relationships between event enrollees....is that our best bet to accomplish the above or is there another way to approach this, via memberships maybe, or something else?   

Thanks in advance for any creative suggestions or advice!

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Re: Creative problem solving
December 02, 2014, 04:57:56 pm
This probably doesn't count as a 'creative' solution  :P- but what you are asking to do is MUCH easier with Drupal than with WordPress afaik
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Re: Creative problem solving
December 02, 2014, 09:00:42 pm
Ha ha - and I almost included in my plea "but please don't tell us to use Drupal!"  That, alas, is not an option for this particular project :(

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Re: Creative problem solving
December 02, 2014, 09:15:34 pm
Well it could be if you wire Civi to Drupal and make Drupal 'look' like the WP site - a bit of effort, but we have done this in cases where for example the 'public' site is neither D or J or WP.

Skinning Drupal to be virtually identical can be just a couple of hours work if the WP site is not that 'creative'. Not pushing this for you but just putting it out there as we keep talking with clients who are 'on WP' but need some of the Drupal options - and this is a way around it being an either/or situation.

But yes it does mean hosting/maintaining/learning a new CMS - so i should shut up now
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Re: Creative problem solving
December 02, 2014, 11:00:18 pm
aye, petendz, there's the rub.  The school is a gem of a Montessori preschool run by a brilliant teacher but true technophobe.  She has no staff aside from the teachers.    I am a completely overloaded parent whose work in the nonprofit sector forced me to become minimally WP savvy after the folks who actually knew what they were doing got laid off during the recession.  An accidental techie like me has no business volunteering to clean up the school's website and automate the admissions process but I have a bad habit of putting myself out on a limb to help good causes.  There is, however, absolutely no way I can take on learning Drupal in the limited time I have to give this project.   

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