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I'm considering using CMSMS for a Club.  We have two membership levels, single and family.

How can I set up the registration to handle family members?

Any ideas?

Hello,

you should use the "front-end-users" module, and have two levels of users!

Does that help?

Is it possible for the family members to use the same "login" or do they need to have separate logins for each family member?

If they are using the same login, then there's no problem.

If they are to use separate logins, then the only way I can see you creating a number of accounts from a single registration, other than severely hacking the code, is by some manual intervention on your part. You would have to have a field on the reg form that asks for the registration data and login names for the other family members, from which you (or some other admin) would set up the user accounts and email their passwords.

Nullig

How difficult would it be to add another table in the database for Secondary Members (Family Members)?

So, the primary user would have the ID/PW with the family members in a separate table linked by the user's ID.  I could query and list all the members including the family.

Does this make sense or is this entering the world of extreme hacking?

Yes, this would be a huge rewrite of the SelfRegistration module and, possibly, the FrontEndUsers module, if you want it automated.

Instead of using the self reg module, you could create your own registration form with FormBuilder and output the reg info to a file, which could be used to import the users into FEU, but this would require some intervention to do the import.

If you want it to be totally automated, you're gonna have to hack the code.

Nullig

FrontEndUsers and Selfreg are designed to work with One username == one account.  if you used shared accounts you will have to permit 'repeated logins', which screws up the history tracking, etc.