We use WA for our club members to register for our weekly meetings. I occasionally hear complaints about how many clicks it takes to register. One member asked if I could make the checkbox that says "Include name in list of event attendees" default to selected. I told him the software does not allow me to do that.

How about in the Event Details page if there were a way to indicate whether the checkbox for "Include name in list of event attendees" would default to selected or not.

 

Thanks,  Mark

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Mark Hastings

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The reason we were reluctant to do this is a potential privacy issue - we thought that people should explicitly opt-in to have their name shown.

I would appreciate comments from other users.  

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We do prefer the default on.  However it would be even better if we could restrict viewing of the attendee list to members only.  Our members want to see what other members are participating, but we don't necessarily want to advertise the entire list for our overnight events, since we are in essence providing a public list of people who will not be home during that time.  So if development is going to be done to change how this option works on event registration, could it be changed so that a member must be logged in to be able to see the list? 

We would also prefer the default to be on or at least make it more obvious. 

Over Labor Day weekend we held an event with about registered 90 participants. It appears many missed or did not understand the option as we received a lot of questions as to why their name was not listed.

As you can imagine, we want to be very careful about privacy and if we reverse this, the potential downside (someone gets listed who did not intend to and flips out!) is significant. 

Any suggestions on how we can make this more obvious during registration? 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Prior to the 4.0 upgrade, there was some custom code that was developed to enable us to make the default on for display names in attendee list for on line registration.

Now that code is no longer working in the new upgrade, so I am back to monitoring/editing and correcting numerous registration records since our members wish to see who else is attending events.

We restrict the ability to review the list to members only, which I think provides them with a general level of privacy (it's not visible to the public).  

At least when we had the custom code in, it makes it a lot easier to determine if anyone is actually opting out (since by far the vast majority want to opt in, but just miss it), and now we may be overriding that for the few that don't want to appear.

Can we prioritize a fix for the custom code for those of us that desperately want/need it now?   I know there were no guarantees that it would be supported in future upgrades, but I think a lot of us out here really liked having it!!!

The script above has been updated and should be functioning properly.

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Frank | User Experience Designer
Wild Apricot

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Is this something we could use as well?  I am here because I would like to make my event list shown by default.  

 

I suppose the ultimate solution would be for this to be a function of the user profile (for members that have a profile).   

-jj 

The custom script still isn't functioning properly.  I spend way too much time going in to edit them, since our members want to be displayed on the attendee list, and don't know why they are appearing as anonymous.

I like the idea of having a choice by event of whether the default is to "include name in list of event attendees" or not to include it.  On our site, we have two pages for events - one that is visible to the public and one that is visible to members only.  The events that go to the public page have one tag and the events for members only uses another tag.  For privacy purposes, I like the idea of someone registering for a public event having to choose to show her name.  For the members only events, I like having the default be to show the name, since our members are used to the way Evites work and like to see who is coming.  So if each event could be marked by the event administrator to be default to show or default to not show, that would work great.

Our group has also expressed overwhelmingly that they would prefer the default setting be set to display attendees' names on the list. Often, they don't notice the check box at the bottom of the registration form and just forget to click it.

 

If the event administrator could have the option of setting the default to have it checked "show attendees on list" when she's creating the event that would be ideal. You could still have that check box listed on the registration form so that registrants could uncheck it if they didn't want to be shown on the list.

We would also like to have the default set to on.  Our users dont have privacy concerns.  They just forget to click the box.

Having ADMIN ability to set the default would be most helpful.

We would like to have the ability to set the default to on or off.