Register multiple Participants without further Details

[pminf]

Hey folks,

is it possible to register multiple participants at once without giving further details like name and e-mail address of those additional participants? Sometimes there is no need to create a contact for each participant. A use-case would be a teacher, who want's to register his class. He should be able to only fill in the number of students, but not their names.

I think this is an quite common requirement, so maybe it is possible to achieve this without changin core functionality.

Philipp

[KilakwaBT]

There could be several ways to accomplish this depending on your pricing structure and reporting requirements. You could have the main person register the contact details and then use either a custom field or a number field in a price set to record the number of attendees in the group. If the pricing is based on the number in the group you would want to use a field in the price set that would then calculate the total price.

You would have to get total participant counts from reporting on the number of attendees fields you create. Each group would be seen as 1 participant in the general participant report.

Hope this helps,

BT

[pminf]

Most of our events don't have an entrance fee, so your price solution isn't an option. We thought about a custom field for a additional anonymous participants but this would bypass the wait-list logic and the participant count of the event overview (/civicrm/event) wouldn't be accurate.

[zorgalina]

I am interested in this feature too - I def. want an accurate count on the Events attendee report so just adding a number field to compute a total price for the paying participant would not work.
I think it would work better to create anonymous attendees (not custom fields but actual attendee objects/rows) and  bypass the profiles for name/email, which is what the user would like, and would work with the reports.

[cwyant]

I'm also interested in this. We have events where parents register multiple children, and don't need any info about the children...

[zorgalina]

FYI anyone who wanted this, I posted my modified code to default additonal participant 'name' as first participant name_n where n = number of extra participant, and use 1st participant's email address for all following participants, plus a custom field to turn the feature on or off, to Contribs, don't know what happens from there.

[Parvez]

Couldn't you use price sets and effectively sell tickets?

[Michael McAndrew]

As Parvez says, price sets can be used for multiple tickets without extra info. This works for free tickets as well by setting the price field to 0.