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Parrent/Child form with Contacts as child - but with additional attributes(fields)

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I have created a custom entity called "Event" with a number of attributes.

For each event it must be possible to enroll as participants a number of contacts.

It works perfect out of the box, by creating a 1: N relationship between Event and contact and the having a editabel subgrid for Contacts on the Event main form.
I can smoothly search for contacts to eb enrolled and create a new contacts if is does not exist.

BUT

I have the need to capture a few additional attributes for the contacts that are enrolled to the event - and now my problems starts.

I do not find it logical to populate the additional attributes on the general Contact entity as fields, as they then would appear on  all contacts in the system.

I have tried to create e separate entity (EventParticipant) with a 1:N relationship ti Event with a contact field having a look-up to contact, but the I loose all the nice out-of-the-box functionality to enroll a participant(contact), as the EventParticipant has it own Primary Field - not being the Contact.

Can anyone come up with a good idea for a solution, where the enrollment of a participant (the "+" button in the subgrid shoud search for contacts) ?

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