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Hey community,

I'm using CiviEvent and I had to create a custom registration profile with custom fields for people registering for a retreat, since things like meals and housing preferences are not there by default. That is all fine. However, after someone registers I need  to be able to edit the record in CiviCRM » Contact Summary but I'm running into some trouble. What if the participant calls me up later and says, "I want to change to the vegetarian option?" How can I do this?

• First, I can't find those custom fields in Events > Manage Events > Participants > (Participant) Edit
• Second, obviously I can't edit them.

The next issue I'm running into is in generating a custom report of the participants and their options to export. I need different reports, such as one for the check-in clerk and another for the cooks. Obviously, the latter only need to know the meal choice, not everything else. I can create different mappings, that's no problem, however, I can't find any of the custom fields I have created in the user profile.

I have searched the documentation and cannot find answers to these questions. Had anybody else run into these problems and how did you fix them?

Thanks. 

Yeah ok, I got it. I was able to change the participant values, such as tuition paid. However, I wanted to go back and edit that later, and it gave me this error message, "Sorry but we are not able to provide this at the moment. DB Error: already exists." Is it not possible to change the values after setting them once?