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When to set Registration Dates for recurring events for 6 month period?

Posted: January 28, 2014 at 4:11 am


Clare Cherry Kinito

January 28, 2014 at 4:11 am

With the recurring event manager I need people to be able to register for classes months in advance – should I set the registration start date to last year? when I set the first date to a week before the classes next month are closed to registration.

Many thanks.


Dean

January 28, 2014 at 4:21 am

Hi,

It depends, there are two ways.

1) you can set the registration date on the first event to X months before the event start date.

Then in this section add those dates again – http://take.ms/XVPCv

Then in the recurring Use this option “No (each event’s registration start and end dates will be incremented according to a formula).”

This will set each each to have a registration period equal to the first events registration period, so the registration start for each event will stagger.

2) Set a registration date for the first event then in this section http://take.ms/XVPCv set the start registration date from the first event, but then set the end registration date to the last possible time they can register for the last event in the series.

That may not make sense so here is an example.

First event can be registered from 1st Feb up until it starts on 1st Mar.

Last event starts on 1st Oct

So the dates would look like this http://take.ms/zVX9b

Then set “Yes (all created events are available for registration between the above registration dates).”

This means that during the period of Feb 1st to Oct 1st your customers can register for any of the events in that recurring series.

I hope that makes some sense to you, recurring events are complicated at best, so please let me know if you have more questions.


Tony

  • Support Staff

January 28, 2014 at 4:26 am

Hi Clare,

You’ll need to set it to be at least 6 months previous.

Which options are you currently using with the Recurring Events Manager (REM) when creating the events?


Clare Cherry Kinito

January 28, 2014 at 4:34 am

Thanks Dean and Tony. I’m not sure what options I’m using yet… bit of a learning curve.


Clare Cherry Kinito

January 28, 2014 at 4:49 am

That worked. Thanks


Dean

January 28, 2014 at 6:30 am

No problem, please let us know if you get stuck, it’s what we are here for!

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