How to stop people from registering other people

Question

There are a number of places where CiviCRM gives a user the opportunity to register someone else for an event. In our case, this is undesirable behaviour.

We have tried using CSS to hide those messages, by replacing the .msg-text with text of our own, but inevitably this also causes us to hide important messages that shouldn't be hidden.

Is there a way in Civi to just prevent registering other people altogether? Or on a per-event basis perhaps?

Specific examples:

• If you have already registered for an event, and you go to the event page, Civi gives you an option to register someone else. So we used CSS to hide .msg-text.
• However, if you have an event that has a registration limit, the same .msg-text CSS placeholder is used to say the event is full.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you

Answer 1

Yea, its difficult to hide the message from the status using CSS. You write JS to remove the tag inside the .msg-text. But the user will still be able to register using the URL

We have an extension that over-rides the status message and restricts the user to registering using cid=0 from the URL.