gayle
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13 years ago Talked with users. They liked the idea of showing registered participants first, followed by past participants, and either highlight the registered ones or grey-out the non-registered ones.
An issue came up at 2011 camp because this is the first year that we have had a separation of past participants and current participants.
Registering a past participant for the current year was done at the participant level, not at the family level. This is because the interface became very complicated for how to handle a situation where, for example, 3 of the 4 family members from a previous year are attending this year.
And on the list of families, we are only showing ones that are registered for the current year.
What was not considered was that when showing a family who has some members from previous years not attending, that is not indicated when viewing the family.
An example: Craig family. Jim, Carolyn, Gayle, Dan attended in 2010. Only Jim, Carolyn and Gayle attending in 2011. Craig is listed on the family list. Jim, Carolyn and Gayle are listed in the "Current participants" column (under Manage > Participants) and Dan is listed under the "Past participants" column. But when showing details for the whole family, all 4 members and their information are displayed, with no indication here that Dan is not attending.
Plan is to brainstorm with the staff at camp in 2011 about ways to handle this. One idea is to only show registered participants on family detail, but we probably do want to see them all. Another idea is to show registered participants first, followed by past participants, and either highlight the registered ones or grey-out the non-registered ones.
I will update the ticket with what the users decide.