Mutually Exclusive Events

Overview

Any set of campus campaigns can be made “Mutually Exclusive” by following these steps:

Group events together by making one event the Parent Campaign of all the others
1. Note that Recurring campaigns are already organized this way, so they are ideal candidates to make mutually exclusive
Check the “Mutually Exclusive Group” checkbox on the parent campaign (this box is only available to be checked on Parent Campaigns)
Review/update the parent campaign’s Mutually Exclusive Warning messages (discussed immediately below)

Mutually-Exclusive Event default messages are stored in the Custom Setting record called "DEFAULTS" in the Custom Setting called "Events Rx."
- These warning messages appear when a user has already registered for or attended one of a set of Mutually-Exclusive campaigns and then attempts to register for another one, like this:
- As shown above, the message is preceded by the name of the Campaign of which the user is already a Campaign Member.
- The messages can be customized on each individual campaign, but the defaults—stored in the Custom Setting—will be used for all “Mutually-Exclusive” Events unless changed on the individual Campaign record.
Mutually Exclusive Warning - Attended message
- On installation, the default message is initially set to: “You have already attended the above-mentioned event, which duplicates the event for which you are trying to register; so you are not authorized to register for this event.”
Mutually Exclusive Warning - Registered message
- On installation, the default message is initially set to: “You are registered for the above-mentioned event, which duplicates the event for which you are trying to register. Press Continue to cancel the above-mentioned registration and register for this event or press Cancel to go to the Event Listing page.”