Adding a new custom attendee field

Organisations may start collecting new sets of data as time goes on, for instance as an organisation you might want to start keeping record of how people had heard about your services, and so want to add a field called 'How did you hear about us?'

Adding new fields can be done at any point.

• Go to Admin > Custom attendee fields
• On the right-hand side under Tools click Add a new attendee data field
• Here the Label is the title of this field, e.g. 'How did you hear about us?'
• Type of field - Here choose how this information is collected. Text area (free text, unvalidated), Single choice dropdown, Multiple-choice field, tickbox, date.
  • Note that only Single-choice and Tickbox fields can be displayed as head count fields.
• Help text - Add any additional information that will help individuals complete this field. Note there is a character limit of 255 characters.
• Project Restrictions - Custom Data Fields can be restricted by project(s), making these fields only viewable to users associated with that project. This can help to customise the length of your registration form and limit the number of users that can view and report on certain information. To find out more about this please click here. 
• Once you have selected your options click Add.

These fields must then be added to the layout of your form. To do this, System Admins can go to Admin > Configure attendee fields and add the field from the Available fields area on the right-hand side to the relevant area in their internal registration form (People > Add new) or Head Count register.

Note, the new field will also need to be added to the Attendee sign-up form if necessary to be completed at this point. This can be done by going to Admin > Attendee sign-up form.

For more information on Custom head count fields please click here.