Retaining form values to print a label

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Peter Wright
Peter Wright ✭
Ninth Anniversary First Reply
in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®: General Discussion
Hi - just started with OLX - we are looking to do event registrations onsite with a custom event form. We tried using the iPad event app but it cannot have additional fields or functions so abandoned that idea. Right now the OLX solution seems to work well but I am wondering if it is possible to do something like this...


Fill out the fields of the attendee, check a box (print name tag?), if box checked, on submit pop up a window with a pre-formatted name tag that can then be sent to a label printer.


I am capable of customizing the CSS on the window, and even writing custom code to layout the label pop-up, but since OLX is a javascript embed, and without reading the DOM, I don't know the field values or how to pass them to the new window. Any suggestions?
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  • Simone Worsdale
    Simone Worsdale ✭
    Tenth Anniversary Facilitator 1 Photogenic
    Printing out nametags would be a great add-on for the RE Event App. 


    I wanted to share a work-around we implemented to deal with the limited fields you can view from the RE Event App: 
    • We customized the "Event Participation" field to include all our needs and then manually updated registrants as they register. 
    • We also used the Seating Chart feature to add up to 4 additional data points about registrants 
    Of course, this is a manual process. 


    If you want to connect, I can go into greater details.  


    Good luck! 
  • Peter Wright
    Peter Wright ✭
    Ninth Anniversary First Reply
    Hi Simone - thanks for the workaround. Unfortunately (and I mentioned this to BB) is that a KEY value is missing from the registration of onsite registrants for the app - phone number. How could they have missed THAT one I'll never know.


    I just wish they would allow additional fields to be used on the registration page of the app - I tried to do it via ticket types as that's a post personal info step - but that didn't work either. So I'm building this out in OLX. While I cannot get the variables submitted (so far) I did figure out a workaround to show a custom confirmation page. That confirmation will just show what I want to appear on the label - now I have to figure out a print-only CSS stylesheet codeset to inject into the top of the page so that when it prints, it only prints the info I want and in a format that's "pretty." The perfect world solution, of course, is to have the values in variables that I can throw onto a new page, but this may just work.


    The solution I'm mulling is ipad onsite using this OLX event form printing via Airprint to a Brother label printer. Nice solution for our staff to use while in the field.

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