Hello Steve

1 - You could maybe create the gifts as products and use the on-stock option.

Then people could "buy" the items and if on-stock is zero, then the gift is "taken". This will require that you process the "orders".

2 - A smarter way could be that you make a mail-form. In the form you create a dropdown, where people can select one of the gifts.

You set the data in the form to be stored in a table - could be named wgifts.

You could add a field manually ( timestamp ) to the table, so you can see when the gift is "taken".

Then you have the database viewer.

You set the viewer to show the data from the wgifts.

If you don't want users to see who has bought the gift, then you can hide some of the fields when setting up the database viewer.

You could put the viewer and the mail-form in a protected area, and give the users an id and a password and mail it to them. Then the list will "grow" until all gifts is "taken" - if two persons choose the same gift, then you can see who has done it, and who came first. If you make a comment-field then you could have people make a comment for the gifts.

This is not quite what you want but close.

3 - You could make a table manually. In the table you create records. Each record is a gift.

Then you set up the database-viewer on a protected page.

The viewer is set up with the possibility to edit records.

You give the users access to the page and they can :

3a - delete the record so that it disappears from the list.

3b - mark a field as "taken" so others can see it is "taken".

The 3-solution will require that people makes no mistakes in the editing.

I would suggest solution 2. You could here set up the database-viewer beside a list showing all the gifts.

when the viewer is showing the same as the list, then all gifts is "taken".

Of course there is a 4. method - if you are familiar with php, you could create a solution that matches your needs exactly.

Kind regards

John S.