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Hi there,

I've been playing in the demo to see if Civi will work for us, and I've come up against this issue.  Basically, we would like to track a general set of "topics" for our events, say Global Health, Climate, Education, etc, and then be able to run searches to see which of our contacts have attended events on a given topic. 

I added a custom event field with the topics, and checked the box to make it available in search.  It does show up as an option when I create an event, but is not appearing in advanced search.  I also added some custom participant fields, which are showing up in search, so don't think I'm missing the point on how to get this to work in general.  Do custom events fields just not show up in advanced search, or am I possibly doing something else wrong?  If they simply don't show up there, is there another way I might achieve what I'm trying to do?

And a related question - how would I be able to run a search to pull up all events of topic X, say all events we have ever done on Health related issues, etc.

Thanks very much

Got it, thanks much.

Thanks for that.  It does seem to work,  but might be a little awkward in the long run and I'd love to just have the topics show up on the event config screen to make things simple/ intuitive.  I'm thinking the custom search might be the best bet.