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Sorry if this is a dup.

We have hundreds of events.  many are clones of other events.  they may be a class with the same title each time.  there is no way to distinguish between the same event on different days, other than the date.  having an internal and external name would address this.  I would suggest making the external = internal by default, requiring that the internal name is unique and check (in realtime) for duplicate internal names when inputing.

Recurring events may help address some of this, but often its a duplicate and not recurring.

thx!

You could use a custom field for your "internal name."

Right. I forgot that the fields show because I was thinking of a site I built which uses a custom event field for this very purpose, and I indeed customized the template to hide the entire custom data group from the public's view.

I would agree that a simple feature of making custom data groups public or private, i.e. not visible on the event (or contribution etc.) pages, would indeed be useful.