Kireblue wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:39 pm
Why did you split up the process? Were you having problems when everything was on just 1 form?
(A bit of inside baseball, for those interested…)
In order to be able to ship awards to winners and such (can't wait to show more on that soon!), I need to provide mailing addresses to the powers that be by end of convention on Sunday, January 9, 2022. There's a grace period to confirm addresses of course, but I need to submit something in hand by end of con. This means we need to collect mailing address info ahead of time, which is something we haven't done before.
On the old form, I believe all we asked were your name, editor handle, and email address for each entry. If we recycled that system again, we'd also have to ask for your mailing address and other contact info, which I felt could get repetitive and annoying.
Instead, we split it into two forms: one for registration info, and one for entry info. Since Google Forms doesn't provide a good way to create a persistent state per registrant, splitting it into two forms was the best option for us. It reduces the amount of redundant information we have to process on the backend, and it saves you from having to type out that same information over and over; a win-win, in theory at least.
Google Forms is not the most ideal way to do this of course, but it's what we have for the moment. We're always exploring other alternatives to help streamline this process much better. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to PM me or send an email to
amv@animelosangeles.org with your ideas. We'd love to hear them!