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Hi All,

Did anyone try using custom fields in profile in civievent participant record? (CiviCrm version 1.9)

Just for testing, I created a participant custom group that has two text fields 'Booth Name', 'Start/End Time' so an event volunteer can be assigned a booth and time. This shows up correctly in participant record.

I also created a participant profile that has few fields along  with above two custom fields.

I tried to update the selected participants using 'Batch update via Profile' and entered values in custom fields. When I looked at individual participant records I didn't see any value that I entered using profile. When I went back to profile I saw the values of custom fields I entered.

Then I updated a participant record by entering value (without using profile) in custom field. Somehow I couldn't see that value using batch update using profile. In fact the previously entered value in custom field was disappeared.

Is this a known issue or I am doing something wrong?

Is there any alternative?

Regards,
-K.Das

I've recreated part of this issue (existing custom field values not showing up in Batch Update grid) - and posted a bug report:
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2736

... I did NOT see the obverse of this - e.g. when I set a custom field value via Batch Update, I WAS able to see that value when viewing the individual's participant record (from Contact Summary >> Events tab).