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Hi all,

Based on what I've tested so far, CiviEvent is able to track events properly but once you create an event and make it available to online registration any member may register to that event.
I'm trying to setup a event to just some of my members (contacts). It could be based on groups, tags, membership type, whatever but I wasn't able to find a way to restrict this by using profile, ACL or any other combination. Does anyone can shed some light on this? Perhaps this is not possible on current release (2.12). This is the short version of the problem...

If you have more time to read, here is the full story of the other challenges related to events I'm trying to address:

The event I'm trying to setup has 100 seats only. 40 seats are from group A, 30 for group B and 30 for group C. Each person belongs to just ONE group. The total audience is 1000 distict contacts who follow the same breakdown (400 contacts for group A, 300 for B and 300 for C). As CiviEvent does not create one event for 3 distinct audiences I'm setting up 3 separate events, at same date/time. This may work as design if I filter the event's URL for each group by using blocks or any other mecanism to restrict view of data (in drupal). The problem is that users are "creative" and by the moment they realize all seats are taken from their session, they may change the ID from the event URL and find the event that should belong to another group. If that happens, I don't have a way of preventing this from happening unless I can restrict the registration by using any sort of filter. Does it make sense? Is this a valid concern?

Issue:
If there is just one seat left to an event, the system currently allows me to register myself and if I have multilple registration enabled, I can also register how many people I want and this should not be allowed because there is just ONE seat left.

Thanks Lobo. Let's wait for 2.2 to test the topic #2.

Regarding the acl+group setup to restrict access to events. I was able to do it but when I click on the register now button on an event I don't have permission to, the system shows me a permission error message:
"Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
The requested Profile (gid=1) is disabled OR it is not configured to be used for 'Profile' listings in its Settings OR there is no Profile with that ID OR you do not have permission to access this profile. Please contact the site administrator if you need assistance.

Return to home page."

Is there other way of generating a more friendly message without custom code that I don't know? Please advise.