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The users on my site belong to organizations and they want to register several of their members for an event (and not create accounts on the site for these extra people).

But when they try to do this, they get this message:

'Oops. It looks like you are already registered for this event. If you want to change your registration, or you feel that you've gotten this message in error, please contact the site administrator.'

How can I set CiviEvent to allow them to go through registration again?

(Civi 2.0 on Drupal 5 btw)

The people getting this error are not necessarily logged in users, and even if they are, they don't have the ability to create contacts.

Here is the scenario:
The site is for the Main Organization.
A visitor belongs to Another Organization. They have several members who all want to attend this event. They've probably told an admin assistant 'could you register these people for the event'. So the admin assistant wants to go to the form several times and each time put in a new email address. They can't create contacts, even if they have an account themselves, and it's going to be a real pain to logout and pretend to log back in as another email address or something.

That seems to me to be quite a complex flow.

But I've given it a try anyway:
I need to give 'add contacts' permission to these people, and also 'access CiviCRM' so they can actually get into CiviCRM.

The problem is that this gives them too much access:
- they can see 'Recently Viewed' contacts at the top of the CiviCRM home page (even though they can't follow this to the contact page, it's a potential privacy problem as they see the name of another user on the site)
- they can create activities for any user
- they appear to be able to see groups
That's way too much for someone who is not a member of the site's organization!

I thought that maybe setting up civiCRM ACLs would allow finer control but as far as I can tell, it doesn't -- I can grant more access than what there is, but not less, eg allow control over a group of contacts. So that's of no use, it seems.

I've also tried bypassing the checkRegistration function in the code (Register.php), but that means that a user is merely changing their email address across the whole system and creating another registration for themselves.

maxferrario:

Are you talking about ability  to add additional participants during Event registration process? This feature is been added in CiviCRM v2.1.

Kurund

maxferrario:

Then i guess Administer will have to register the participant manually. I can't see any other work around.

Kurund

chriswood_ut:

You can include profile for Event that would allow you to gather other required information.

HTH

Kurund

I can't seem to create a profile that will allow multiple first names and last names.

I must not understand a "profile" then.  I see that I have a "Name and Address" profile by default and I did associated that with the Register page and it works just fine.

I also created a new one for testing but the only fields I could choose were ones in the Contact record, Individual record, etc. 

I want to collect names, so I tried to add the first_name and last_name field from the Individual record.  I added two sets of fields (first_name two times and last_name two times with different labels) but the register form will only show one set of fields even though the profile has two sets of fields.

Unless I can create my own fields/records, I'm not sure how to do more.