Fair/Contest Setup/Registration

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Registration

You can find all registration settings in convenient groupings by navigating to the information icon (i), located at the bottom right of the screen, and searching for "Registration". Opening "Registration Setup" will walk you through setting up registration for all your zFairs user types. Follow the prompts and click on the "i" next to the setting, if you don't understand what the setting is for.

Setting Dates and Sessions

Click on the information icon (i) and search for "dates". Open "Dates and Sessions".

This shows all the configurations to set special dates and user sessions for your event. Once filled out, these dates will show in the "Fairs" tab under "Schedule".

Setting Emails to be sent to Students During Registration

  1. Click on the "i"
  2. Search for and open

Setting Custom Questions for Registration

  1. Click on "Staff"
  2. "Fair Setup"
  3. Click "(Student's, Judge's, or Volunteer's) Custom Questions".
  4. Click "Add New".
  5. Enter your question and the response type
    • If the response data type is "multiple choice", enter each possible choice next to "Multiple Choice Options" with each option on its own line.
    • If you have more than one custom question, you can set the sort order for each question by typing a number next to "Question Sort Order". (By giving a question a sort order of 1, you are requesting to ask this particular custom question first. By giving a question a sort order of 2, you are requesting to ask this particular custom question second, etc.)

Setting Guidelines and Requirements

This section is for any information you would like your participants to agree to before they register to participate in the fair/contest. You can set custom information for each type of participant.

  1. Click "Staff"
  2. Click "Fair Setup"
  3. Click "Guidelines & Requirements"
  4. Click "Add New"
  5. Fill in the information/Select the type
  6. Click "Save"

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