Group Registration vs Individual Registration

If a user registers as an Individual the following takes place (amongst others):
1) the Joomla User is created
2) the registrant is created with the user_id set to the newly created Joomla User

If a user registers as a Group the following takes place (amongst others):
1) NO Joomla User is created
2) the main registrant is created with no link to the user_id (set to 0)
3) the subsequent members (2 and more are created) and linked to the main member (group_id in the _eb_registrants table)

I am trying to achieve an outcome where the group registration follows a similar pattern to individual registration. Is there a setting/plugin I am missing?

I have the following plugins installed:
1) Events Booking - System (DO NOT UNPUBLISH)
2) Events Booking - Fee Fields Generator

Forgive me is this has been answered before but I did search for it at length.

Hello Andre

When you register for a group registration, an account should be created for the billing record (not the members records). If it doesn't work like that, there must be something wrong with your settings

Send me the link to the page, I will try to check to see what's wrong (maybe email or first_name fields are not available in billing step?) and guide you to correct it

Tuan

Hi Tuan
You were spot on, thank you. The first_name, last_name and email_address were not available in the billing step. As soon as I make them available in the billing step the Joomla User is created for the Group Registration. This is done through setting the "Display in" setting on each of these Custom Field's. I have set Display In to "All".

The reason I changed them initially was because the first_name and last_name are duplicated on the Group Member and the Billing step and are treated as two separate fields even though there is only one definition. This occurs when "Display In" is set to "All", any of the other options do not give the required result, which is first_name and last_name for each the member records (Group Member and child members) and a Joomla user to be created with username and password (which is obtained from the Billing record). The ideal scenario would be to default the Billing record's last_name, first_name and email_address to the matching fields from the Group Member field. Is there perhaps a way to this and secondly to hide it on the billing record?

Thanks for you assistance.
Andre

Hi Andre

Unfortunately, no way. The reason is because in a group registration, there could be many group members, so in this specific case, first name and last name of what members will be used?

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan
Thanks for clarifying that. Sometimes its with little knowledge of a complex system that one may overlook something.

Perhaps to answer the question of which member to use can be found in the logic of the database. The eb_registrants has a foreign key to the main member on group_id which is the first member in the list.

Thanks
Andre