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I have this use case:

Organization collects applications from artists for curation in a show.  Data collected includes name of piece, medium, description, and a couple of other fields.

This should be easy enough to collect via profile and custom fields, but they want to allow artist to submit again (they curate once a year) and do not want the profile to over-write the data.

Any thoughts?  I had thought that an activity profile would work, but the artists will not necessarily be logged in, and you can't directly expose an activity profile to the public?

The organization is using Wordpress, so Webform isn't an option.

I had honestly hoped for an answer like this - I hadn't thought about using multiple value custom data because I didn't know it had come online in 4.3.x! Will try it out now.

Have you considered using "multiple value" custom data and then use that in your profile. So that whenever profile is submitted it will create new entries for custom data. This feature was added in 4.3.x

Kurund

Even more reason for me to read deeper into the release notes.

Thanks, Kurund.

Other options to consider - since multiple value fields still have some conditions (or did) in terms of importing/exporting.

Create each 'show' as either an Event (and use Participant fields) or an Activity.

I had though about the Event option.  Unfortunately, it looks like I can't publicly expose an Activity profile if it's using custom data? The HTML snippet spits out an error about mixed field types, and I believe that you need to have a user logged-in to use an activity profile properly, which isn't the use-case contemplated.

Which I sadly can't do as the organization is on Wordpress. But thanks!

No worries! Working with another group, which is why I had included that restriction in the OP.