The "Invite other guests" option in /admin/settings/rsvp/defaults and /rsvp/*/edit does not seem to work - regardless of the setting, guest invites always show the "Total Guests (incl. you):" selection box. I have tried both RSVP 6.x-2.0-rc2 and 6.x-2.x-dev (2009-Aug-01) on Drupal 6.13 with Events 6.x-2.x-dev (2009-Jul-05).

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ulf1 commented
Assigned: Unassigned » ulf1
Status: Active » Fixed

The "Total Guests (incl. you):" field in the reply box is completely unrelated to the "Invite other guests" feature.

The "Invite other guests" feature refers to the fact that you as a guest can invite other people to the event as well. Those people will be added to the invitation with their email address.
like you and all other guests.

If you enable "Invite other guests", then you as a guest will have another tab at the top called "Add Guests", where you can add other guests email addresses.

Only issue that I found is that the "RSVP guest toolbox" block does not show a "Add Guests" link to add more guests if "Invite other guests" is enabled. This will be fixed with the next dev version.

There is currently no configuration to restrict how many dependents you are suppose to bring to the event ("Total Guests (incl. you):"). I will add this to the feature list.

Hope that helps

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Ulf

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photographicon commented

Ah ha, thanks. The ability to limit invitee dependents is vital for some types of events where the guest list is being tightly controlled... as a stop-gap measure for those who need it, add the following to the Drupal theme's style.css :

#edit-reply-totalguests-wrapper {
display: none;
}

For the particular project I'm working on, it has been decided to use http://www.eventbrite.com/ for handling the invites, but I shall keep the Drupal Event & RSVP modules in mind for other projects in the future.

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ulf1 commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Good for you.

Keep in mind that the main reason to use integrated drupal modules is that they are integrated! Everything on your website is connected.

And secondly I value drupal modules in general because almost all external sites/services like eventbrite or evite make money by either
-selling your (probably personal) information to other companies which could undermine your users trust in your site.
-or by setting up billboards which I personally find annoying.

If it is integrated in your site, you have control over it.

If you like to make some customizations to the rsvp module in the future, I am willing to help.

Just let me know.

~
Ulf

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photographicon commented

Yup I completely agree about the advantages of an integrated approach... I've been asked to go the Eventbrite route by another partner in the project, and having played with it I'm not entirely sure it does all of what we need so I may yet revert back to your RSVP module =)