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I'm in the process of putting together a civicrm deployment which has multiple organizations in a master/chapter relationship.  Civievent/civicrm is great and has the structure and tools to do a lot of nifty things I'd like to be able to provide members and chapter leaders (membership card barcode checkin, etc), but one thing that I was looking at that sort of 'muddles the water' if you will is that the filtering only ties to events.

It would be useful a field (and search item as well) for the system to tie events to an organization as the 'host' (optional field) of a given event. 

I suppose currently I can create a custom field, I feel like this could be valuable to several users as part of the core deployment (and in the relevant table). Thoughts or any reasons it was decided not to have this initially?