RE: How to record event attendance on a booking if attendees details unknown
Hi,
I've had this request before from one of my clients. The reason for the question is because the contact lookup is a required field, which is a problem in this sense as you do not have their details, nor do you have a contact you can relate them too just yet.
What we did to resolve this was to make the contact lookup not required, then create a new "First Name", "Last Name" and "Email Address" for when you do know their details. What those new fields did, was when they were entered, a Power Automate flow would search all contacts with the same first name and/or last name and/or email address and update the contact lookup field.
This also assisted us in identifying which registrations were primarily placeholders first and populated at a later stage. (Because the first name/last name/email address field contained data, whereas if they were not placeholders, these fields wouldn't contain data)
