Please be aware that Lyyti is developed constantly and your view might not match 100% with the view described in this article. 

Lyyti has been built in a way that it considers each event as an entity, as a separate event. Events that last many days are a bit of a challenge and the organiser has to consider which elements must be automated and what can be left aside.

Which leads us to the bad news: you cannot build an event with many dates, at least not yet. The good news is that with small adjustments you can create a logically working registration process, both for the registrant and the event organiser. There are many ways of implementing this, depending on whether you want to use the calendar not, waiting list or if your events have different registration deadlines that should be automated.

This article contains the following sections:

• Participants select multiple days: Multiple choice question
• Participants select one day: Participant types
• Participants select one or many of the given dates: Landing page
• Tips: Multiday online event

If you have In this article  a multiday online event, where you need to distribute several webinar links to different sessions through one event, see this tips article for further information: Multiday Online Event

Participant selects several days: Multiple choice question

When participants select one or several of the given dates, create the registration with the question type Multiple choice (select many).

+ Easy and clear for the registrant 
+ Making changes is easy both for the registrant and the organiser
+ Possibility to add capacities per event date
+ Easy for a novice Lyyti user

- Cannot use the automatic waiting list per event date
- Cannot use the automatic calendar note
- If each event has a different registration deadline, the organiser is responsible of opening/closing each registration by hand

1. Create event. Start normally by creating an event, but the start date being the date of the first event and the end date being the last event date. This ensures that the event stays active on the page My Events through the whole registration process. If you want, hide the event information from the registration page, so the registrant won't see the overall event duration.
2. Go to the registration page and create a Multiple choices (choose many) question, for example:
   
   Select the day(s) you will attend
   
   And the answer options:
   Mon Feb 2, 2021, 9.00-15.00
   Tue Feb 9, 2021, 12.00-18-00
   Fri Feb 12, 2021, 10.00-16.00
   
   
3. Capacities. If each date has a capacity of their own, remove the event's total capacity from the Settings page: The event's maximum number of participants is ___ persons. Please note that the automatic waiting list function cannot be linked to capacities set on the registration page's questions.
4. Calendar note. Lyyti doesn't know that multiple choice question's answer are dates, but they are text just as in any text field. Therefore you cannot use the automatic calendar note and we advised removing it from the Thank-you page.
5. Confirmation e-mail: In Confirmation > Event information, hide the event's date. Instead, to the confirmation message's opening text, write a short info text for example:
   See selected date(s) under "Your information”.

Click here to see an example of how this has been implemented. You can also register to the test event if you wish.

Participants select one date: Participant types

When the event consists of several days from which the registrant selects only one, create different days with participant types. A typical event would be a series of trainings, if the same training is organised many times.

+ Easy and clear for the registrant 
+ Making changes is easy both for the registrant and the organiser
+ Possibility to add capacities per event date
+ Possibility to use the automatic waiting list per date

- Cannot use the automatic calendar note
- If each event has a different registration deadline, the organiser is responsible of opening/closing each registration by hand
- Using participant types often requires some previous knowledge on Lyyti's functions. If you are a beginner, create first a few registration processes without participant types, so you get to know Lyyti a bit better.

1. Create participant types for each date. The name of the participant type should be the date and time. The title for participant types can be, for example "Date & time".
2. Capacities. If each date has a separate capacity, define it on the Settings page. At the bottom of the settings page, in "Presentation text to participant type selection", write for example "Registration to Lyyti's trainings. Please select a date below."
3. Remove event information. If you want, hide the event information from the registration page and, from the confirmation message, hide the event's date and time (Confirmation > Event information).  Instead, to the confirmation message's opening text, write a short info text for example:
   See selected date(s) under "Your information”.
4. Waiting list. When dates are created with participant types you can choose to activate the waiting list for the different days. Activate the waiting list as usual, and Lyyti provides you with an automatic waiting list for each day. 
5. Registration deadline. If each event has a different registration deadline, you as the organiser are responsible of opening/closing each registration by hand. This can be done by changing a participant type to Public (registration open) or Not public (cannot be chosen without a direct link to the participant type; use if the registration is closed).

Click here to see an example of how this has been implemented. You can also register to the test event if you wish.

Participants select one or many of the given dates: Landing page

A Landing page is a webpage that offers links to the actual registration pages. It is the "home page" of an event where participants select which day they will attend. In Lyyti, each day is a separate event, and their registration links are gathered on the same landing page.

+ Easy to manage single events
+ Automation: own registration deadlines, calendar notes and waiting lists for each day
+ Easy to copy events

- Reporting and messaging done per event, cannot be merged
- Making changes can be a bit difficult: if a participant changes their participation date, they have to cancel the first registration and register for another day
- Can only be used with open registration links, not with personal registration links

You can create a landing page when participants select multiple days - however, they need to register to each event separately.

1. Create events. Start by creating a separate event for each event day. Create the first event (online reports and messages, too). When you copy the event for the next date, reports and messages will also be copied.
2. Create landing page. After you've finished creating the actual events, create one more event that will be the landing page. Start by creating the event normally, and, as the event's start and end date, select the first event's date and the last event's date. The event name could be, for example, Training sessions (landing page). Do not make any changes on the Settings page.
   
   On the registration page, select Hide questions from registration page: Yes. In the opening text for the registration page, write clear instructions of what the registrant should do. Be clear about what event this is (see below), and create different day options. For each day, write e.g. "Click here to register". Creating a table may make it even clearer.
   
   
3. Copy each event's open registration link from the events and add them as hyperlinks on the landing page. Then, send the landing page's open registration link to the invitees.

The end result looks like this:

Click here to see an example of how this has been implemented. You can also register to the test event if you wish.