Can I use BANDZONE on behalf of other band members?

It may happen that some band members cannot or do not want to use BANDZONE.

Some things, such as event availability, can already be set by the admin for other band members, but there are 2 exceptions:

1. Personal absences
2. Personal song ratings

Why

1. Absences in BANDZONE are not limited to the band, but are stored for the user. This means that users who are active in several bands do not have to enter them multiple times.
2. Song ratings are currently deliberately kept anonymous - even for admins. As a result, they also have no access here.

In addition, for the things that an admin can already change for others a BANDZONE account still has to exist for these “others” .

That leads to...

The question

How do you add planned absences, set event availabilities, etc., for fellow musicians who do not use BANDZONE?

The answer

You can create an account on behalf of other band members without them using BANDZONE.

The account can also be “handed over” to them later and they can still use personalized calendar subscriptions, for example.

How does that work?

You invite the corresponding band members with an e-mail address that you have access to yourself:

• Option 1 : You use another email address or an email alias of yours that is not used for BANDZONE (many email providers allow for email aliases to be created)
• Option 2 : You use one of the email alias services, which forward a new email address to your existing email address
  • This option is more for experienced users (and is therefore not described further here)
  • Depending on the service, there may be delays in delivery
• Option 3 : You use the “+” trick for the email address
  • It is supported by many email services
  • It is very easy to use, namely:

The “+” trick for email addresses

This trick works, for example, for Gmail but also many other email services - as follows:

Let's say you already have the regular email address alex@example.com , then you can create another email address by adding “+” and any other text before the “@” sign.

With that you get from alex@example.com to e.g. alex+bandzone@example.com just by appending “+bandzone”.

E-mails that are sent to the new address generated in this way are delivered to the original e-mail box by many e-mail services.

Practical example

• Sam can't use BANDZONE, but everyone else is already registered and is using BANDZONE.
• Alex (alex@example.com) is an admin for the band and has agreed to manage Sam's BANDZONE account.
• Alex invites Sam via the band member management using the e-mail address alex+sam@example.com and completes the registration for Sam.
• Alex can then log in to BANDZONE “as Sam” with this new email address and
  • change the nickname to “Sam”
  • enter absences
  • copy the calendar subscription link (and send it to Sam... :) )
  • etc.
• Optional for later:
  • Should Sam be able to use BANDZONE independently at some point, Alex just has to change the email address of this account from alex+ sam@example.com to Sam's “correct” email address.
  • After this change, Sam will have access to everything that has been done and everything that is yet to come :)