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rguerra

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Duplicate checking of events
July 29, 2007, 04:17:30 pm
I've been deploying a solution  using the event feature of civicrm. I've noticed that one can - register numerous times for the same event when logged in.

Ideally, one should be able to register just once. Otherwise, the organization tabulating the # of registered participants, well, will have an incorrect number.


Consequently, i'd like to request a duplicate checking process of some kind be built into the next version of civievent.


When one registers,  a certain # of fields would be looked up. if they match, and there's a duplicate - one could either merge the new entry, or block it and ask the person to login and change the details

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Re: Duplicate checking of events
July 29, 2007, 04:56:48 pm
Robert - I think the duplicate detection piece is pretty easy - assuming . We already do this for unauthenticated contributions - although in this case the purpose is to link the "new contribution" to an existing contact if we find a match.

The complexity comes in figuring out how to deal w/ potential duplicates.  Different sites/events may want different behavior - although a minimal solution would be to allow a configurable "duplicate detected" message. Then you could ask them to contact the event coordinator or ....

Note that we don't currently offer a "built-in" way for folks to "login and change" their event participation details either (although you "might" be able to pull this off w/ a profile - might be something to play with if you haven't).
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rguerra

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Re: Duplicate checking of events
July 29, 2007, 06:05:02 pm
A solution might be to be have people confirm their registration request if there's a duplicate. That way, you can make sure that at least the email address belongs to the person in question.


This is related to another recent posting of mine - http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,768.msg3118.html#msg3118
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