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July 28, 2014 at 2:46 pm

Hi George,

Thank you for contacting us! We appreciate your interest in Event Espresso.

Are you asking about EE3 or EE4?

Here is Dean’s response to the question you linked to (the rest of the thread gets technical):

Hi Andy,
This type of conference isnt handled perfectly in the current version of Event Espresso, as we dont have a system to connect events.
What this means is that you cant have a requirement of one event (the main one) and then allow users to book other events only if that event is selected.
There are a few variations on how to handle this:
1) use the site itself as the “main event”, by using a membership plugin to get people to register and pay, and using Event Espresso to handle the subsequent session events as per normal for a fee or for free. If the main event is free, you wouldnt even need the membership system, just create the sub events as per normal.
2) Have the main event and the separate events as individual events. This is good in that you dont need the membership system, but bad in that there is no way to “force” the user into purchasing the main event before being able to register for sub events, so they could literally just not buy it. Yes you could use jQuery to force it but that would rely on the user having Javascript turned on.
I have heard of some customers creating custom solutions for requiring an event but I have never seen how they did it.
3) Have one event. Instead of the sub events use questions to handle what the user wants to go to. The downside here is that you lose the registration features for the sub-sites (attendee tracking, attendee number limiting etc)
I am hopeful that as the next version of Event Espresso (4.0) becomes stable and starts to grow that we can deal with this type of event better.
I hope that helps a bit, but if you have more questions/want clarification please just let me know.

I have set something like this up on my test site for EE4: http://demoee.org/jon/events/the-amazing-conference/

If you need me to make changes, or if you have any questions about features, etc., please let me know!