TOPIC: Do users have to complete their information for each event?

I am hoping to use DT Register to allow people to sign up for sessions in a one day conference.

There are morning sessions and afternoon sessions. Each registrant will need to choose one morning session and one afternoon session from a list. The maximum number of registrants for each session needs to be capped at 30.

I have DT register installed and working, but not exactly the way I want it to work.

I’m hoping that it is possible to have people only be required to complete the registration information form only once and on that same form choose their morning session and their afternoon session. I’ve experimented a bit with creating custom fields that allow the user to choose their session via a radio button, but using this method I lose the ability to display and track the number of remaining seats. Also, I can’t seem to figure out how to modify the code so that the choices appear vertically instead of horizontally. Pulldown menus do not seem to work as advertised although I am using the delimiting character without spaces as described.

As it sits, the form has to be completed each time the user signs up for an event - which is not very professional looking and a nuisance for the end user.

Hello. First off... seems like you haven't watched any video tutorials as if you had, you probably would never have had to post this. Please check them out.

If your dropdowns are not working, then they are not setup correctly. Dropdowns, radio buttons, and checkbox fields have a setting called Selection Limits. For each value in the field, you must provide a selection limit. It is like a capacity check for each item in the dropdown. Once the limit is reached, that option no longer will show. 0 represents unlimited. So if you have 3 options in your dropdown and can have 50 people choose each one, your selection limit would be:
50|50|50

If this is not setup correctly, it will keep that field from working right.

You do not need to modify code to make radio buttons / checkboxes appear vertically. There is a parameter in the setup of the field "New Lines: Yes / No". Set it to Yes and each value will show on a "new line"... vertically. Described in the tooltip and the video.

For your sessions... if you make each one a separate event, then there will be a form for each one, yes. If you use Community Builder or JomSocial, you can have the form auto-populate the default fields from the user profiles (name, address, city, email, etc). That will make things easier for the end user.

However, I would set it up using custom fields. There is not a display of how many spots are still available in each, BUT you CAN set that limit as described above. Once the capacity for the session is hit, others won't see it as an option to select in their registration.

Thanks and hope this clears things up for you.