I want to create teams that participants can join

Jennifer Garcia

I'm struggling to figure out how to pre-create teams that my participates can choose from and join. Right now, I'm only seeing how participatins can register and then create their own teams. I don't want them to create their own teams - I want to force them to join one of three available teams. Can this be done??

Brian Mucha

Jennifer Garcia:

I'm struggling to figure out how to pre-create teams that my participates can choose from and join. Right now, I'm only seeing how participatins can register and then create their own teams. I don't want them to create their own teams - I want to force them to join one of three available teams. Can this be done??

Honorary Teams are assigned randomly, so I don't think that would work. I don't think this is possible with a simple setting. 


 You would have to pre-create the teams yourself, of course. On those team pages you can copy the URLs from each 'Join Team' button. Those look like this:


https://secure3.convio.net/cmf/site/TRR/Events/DanceMarathon?pg=tfind&fr_id=1760&fr_tjoin=36407


Use those links on a custom page to make a nice table of teams and join links, and start your registration process there.


I would also put a redirect on the join an existing team form and the start a team form in case users stumble into those pages. In the admin config for the Team Selection page put this in the HTML Area:


[[? 
[[S8]]::/admin/:: <!--// Don't redirect from the admin UI or preview //-->

:: <script>window.location.replace("http://mydomain.org/site/TR?fr_id=1234&pg=informational&sid=1001");</script>

]]


This means "If the current URL contains '/admin/' then do nothing, otherwise redirect to custom page 1001"


Review the registration process and find any links to those pages so you can hide them with CSS.