Hi Andrea - thank you for the clarification, and you are right. I confused Participant Attributes with Participant Options. I have set this back to Open.

I feel like putting this status as "already exists" is a little misleading considering most of us are referring to the Participant Custom Fields that already likely exists on hundreds, if not thousands of participants. I don't think I'm alone in stating that I do not wish to do a move of all this data from the attribute/custom fields over to the options so that it can work with what Blackbaud set up as options instead of making our already created custom fields available

Hello, Participant Options now show on the Participants List as columns and can be filtered on.

Some attributes we have for participants are added by us for our internal information. They will not be added by the registrant when he/she registers.

If you're using Webview's participatnt list, you can instead setup a "Participant Option" to capture your custom participant information. Once these participant options are setup on the event record, you can add the columns to include them on your participant list under the "Columns" selector.

These do not write back to database view, but if your main list work is out of webview's Participant List, this may work for you.