This document provides an overview of event management options in Drupal 7, focusing on the Entity Registrations module. It discusses the Drupal 7 event registration landscape, introduces Entity Registrations and its architecture, features, ecosystem of contributed modules, and major related initiatives. It also demonstrates Entity Registrations and Commerce Registrations, and outlines next steps for the Entity Registrations module.

1. What's new in
Event Management
with Drupal
Presented at Capital Camp 2012
Sean Larkin (seanberto)

2. Agenda
• The Drupal 7 Event Registration Landscape
• Introducing Entity Registrations (ER)
• ER Architecture
• What You Can Do with ER
• ER Contrib Ecosystem
• Major ER-Related Initiatives
• Entity Registrations & Commerce Registrations
Demonstration
• Where the ER Module Is Headed

3. The Drupal 7 Event
Registration Landscape
• Sign-up (1,012 installs on D7)
• Entity Registrations (882 installs)
• CCK Sign-up (233 installs)
• Node Registration (61 installs)

4. Sign-up vs. Entity
Registrations
• Sign-up for D7 is a straight port of D6
version (Manages registrations in its own
schema)
• Entity Registrations leverages Entities and
Fields

5. Entity Registrations:
Architecture
• Defines an entity type called: Registration
• UI for creating your own registration
bundles
• Registration bundles are fieldable
• Using the “Registration” field type, you can
create/manage registrations on any entity
bundle (Nodes, product entities, users,
taxonomy vocabularies, etc.)

6. Entity Registrations:
Core Features
• Per entity registration settings like capacity,
reminders, etc
• Granular per-bundle user permissions
• Allow a single user to register multiple registrants
• Users can register themselves, another Drupal user,
or an anonymous registrant
• Configurable registration states
• Send broadcast emails to registrants
• Integration with Views and Rules via Entity API

7. The ER Contrib Ecosystem
• Add to Calendar
• Registration Date
• Views Bulk Operations, Rules and Mandrill
Major Initiatives
• Commerce Registration
• Conference Organizing Distribution (COD)
• RedHen CRM Registrations

8. Entity Registrations
Demo

9. Next Steps
• Allow any entity bundle to be “registered” for an
event (for example, RedHen contacts or Profile2
entities)
• Wait lists and better registration “states”
management
• Additional Commerce Registration checkout
workflow options
• Embedded/automatic user account creation for
new registrations
• Additional Views support for Registration “open/
close” filtering