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If this is the correct behavior, then what you are suggesting will not really work for what I want to do because I can only add one first name and one last name to a profile. 

How does somebody make suggestions for future releases?  This is the third time I've asked this.   

These are the things I would like to see changed (or are the challenges) with the civiEvent tool for a Gala event.
1. A person entering the registration (RSVP) needs to be able to enter the names of those attending with them.  It may be as many as 10 people total.  We have written a side program (hack) for handling our auction at the Gala.  It relies on the userId (and other user info) from civicrm's tables.  This becomes their auction ID.  So, every bidder must have an individual record with at least a name.  Because of this requirement, the way civiEvent handles registering guests is difficult.  We're having to have an XLS file with the RSVP information as well because of the convoluted way civi handles this.

2. The fees need to have some flexibility.  This may be tricky.  Our fee structure is that somebody can buy two tickets for $50/each.  They also may choose to be a bronze sponsor and buy 2 tickets for $250 (total).  A platinum sponsor would get 10 tickets.  The way it is programmed now, I believe, if they select multiple bronze sponsor and then register 2 people it will try to charge 2 x $250.  We also had the situation where a platinum sponsor ($5000) was only bringing 2 people.  This is common Gala style pricing.

I'm sure I'll come up with other ideas.  I do have documented "user stories" for auction requirements that I'd be happy to give to the civiCRM developers for a possible future civiAuction.  We were going to build our own system until we found civicrm and then decided to help here rather than go it on our own.

How does somebody make suggestions for future releases?  This is the third time I've asked this.   

We were going to build our own system until we found civicrm and then decided to help here rather than go it on our own.

1. You can post a feature request here for CiviEvent: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,40.0.html. Note that we have way more feature requests than resources to implement them, so it may or may not make it into our development roadmap

2. As kurund mentioned, if this is important to you, a code contribution and or sponsorship of the feature will help make it into the core code base

lobo

people can recommend/request a feature. it does not mean it will get implemented. it is a feature request after all

Given that, i would also add that more than 50% of things that are improved on in any release come from the user community. We do get way more feature requests than we can implement, and hence code contributions / sponsorships are important and vital to the community

lobo

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.

Why are u adding 2 sets of fields in a profile, when the value is saved for a single contact? You can collect names / data regarding each participant per profile. Meaning, one profile will enable you to save data to one contact(in this case participant). The Additional participant info will be collected in the profile (that is basically all you need to know about the participant).

For more details on this, check http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3086

hth
-Yashodha

You should be able to see that.

Check out http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&action=preview&id=3 for profile showing up for additional participants.

hth
-Yashodha

You should be able to see that.

Check out http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&action=preview&id=3 for profile showing up for additional participants.

hth
-Yashodha

The event you mentioned had the ability to register multiple participants deactivated when I checked it out so I reactivated that option and gave it a try. Cool !! It was asking for full info for each additional participant(fee item, email, First & last Name and full address for each). All of which showed up on the "Review and Confirm Your Registration" page

Unfortunately the Google checkout puked when I tried it. But that might be because it wasn't fully configured.

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