Support

Preparing event participant badges

Last post 07-28-2008, 9:59 PM by HippoTraining. 5 replies.
Sort Posts: Previous Next
  •  05-09-2008, 10:53 AM 6788

    Preparing event participant badges

    Current behavior:
    To print event participant badges, attendee list has to be exported into Excel and something like Microsoft Word mail merge used. This provides a lot of flexibility but obviously is less convenient than a built-in badge generator

    Desired behavior:
    Built-in functionality to define badge layouts and to print out badges in common label sizes right from the system

    Notes:
    We would appreciate feedback about desired label formats (sizes) and customization needs for badge layouts/design
     


    Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
    Filed under:
  •  06-04-2008, 1:13 AM 7528 in reply to 6788

    Re: Preparing event participant badges

    This feature would be of great use to us as our main two reasons for joining WA are to better manage our conferences.

     

    Our badges typically standard size and include
     

    Name

    Organization

    City, State

    (Some tags also have information that would require field to designate the role of the attendee, EG  The tag might say  "Presenter" or "Board Member")


     

  •  06-05-2008, 1:59 PM 7610 in reply to 6788

    Re: Preparing event participant badges

    This would be a great feature for our Association.  For my Member ID Card and my Event badges I use blank printable business cards.  These can be inserted into a name badge pouch or laminated (For ID Cards).  I recycle the badge pouches and use them for different events.

     

    Cards I use Size is Avery 8376 / 8271, white, micro-perforated (You can buy office depot brand very cheap!
     

  •  06-26-2008, 10:58 AM 8158 in reply to 6788

    Re: Preparing event participant badges

    A nice-to-have feature, but not a high priority for us since we can do this pretty easily using MS Word.  But an improved data export functionality (export-to-MSWord-for-MailMerge) would make it a little easier.

  •  06-26-2008, 11:17 AM 8161 in reply to 8158

    Re: Preparing event participant badges

    Can you elaborate what is missing in the current version?

    MS Word Mail merge can use Excel files so existiing export file should be easily usable for mail-merge.


    Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
  •  07-28-2008, 9:59 PM 8955 in reply to 6788

    Re: Preparing event participant badges

    We would use this feature if it were available.  Tell us which avery labels to get and we would go buy them.  Preferably, they would be labels that just stick to you and not actual badges.  But we'd use whatever is available.

    Corey


    Interested in learning how to market your website? SEO, Google AdWords, Blogging classes all available at www.HippoIMT.com Now a Wild Apricot site!
View as RSS news feed in XML
Copyright © 2009. Wild Apricot (TM) by BonaSource Inc.
Terms of Use   Privacy Policy   Billing and Refund policy

Contact us: 144 Front Street West, Suite 725, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2L7, Toll-free phone: 1-877-270-4268, support@wildapricot.com
Click to verify BBB accreditation and to see a BBB report.