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It seems that Civi does not allow people to use the self-service cancellation after the event start. We have some multi-day and longer-term events that it would be very helpful for them to still be able to self-cancel. Questions: * Is there setting to let Civi permit cancellations after the event start?

  • If not...would the event online registration setting "cancellation or transfer time limit (hours)" - could that be made negative somehow (i.e. until 1d after event start)?

Just a user, not a developer here, thanks in advance!

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By chance I also recently discovered this limitation, and opened a ticket for it.

I wrote the code to add this feature, but it requires a change to the CiviCRM schema, so I don't recommend patching yourself unless you know what you're doing. I wrote a patch to clean up checking whether a participant can self-update. Once that's approved, I'll submit a patch to allow negative values for the "hours until cancellation" field.

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I think(but not sure) if you append is_backoffice=1 to the self-service cancellation url it should do what you want.

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  • Thanks for the idea-> I tried it-> error is: "24_isbackoffice=1) is not of the type Positive" In case it matters, this is a Wordpress site. id=24 are the last digits of the cancellation URL.
    – CiviLearner
    Commented Jan 23, 2020 at 19:10
  • You will need to add &is_backoffice=1
    – Pradeep Nayak
    Commented Jan 23, 2020 at 19:33
  • If you need to add arguments to url or link it should be separated by &
    – Pradeep Nayak
    Commented Jan 23, 2020 at 19:34
  • Thanks for the clarification! OK, the box that says "Sorry registration for this event cannot be cancelled..." goes away, but the box that says "Registration is closed for this event" is still up, and it won't let me cancel. Any ideas how to let registrants use their self-service cancellation links after the event has begun? Thanks again.
    – CiviLearner
    Commented Jan 26, 2020 at 19:34

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