Linking Constituent Record to Guests

Are the constituents listed as participants in the event already and you're adding their guests, or are you trying to create event participants from scratch?

"Guests" can mean different things here, so I want to make sure I understand what you're asking.


Also, unrelated to the terminology or what you're trying to import, do check your security permissions. There's an interesting one where in order to add anything to Constituents' Event/Participant info, you have to be able to edit the constituent record itself (even if you're not given permission to specific things on the record). So if you don't have Constituent -> Add, Edit you can't import event stuff to them.


This is a screencap of the constituent security permissions that allow my users to link a participant to a constituent.


But if you're okay on this, we can look at your import settings to figure it out.

Well, what the heck! Can you add any of the guests manually?

!!! That is a lot.

Okay, my next question is whether there is an error message when you try to import. Is there a field missing or unexpected content in a field or something? That is usually where I go wrong - I'm using a saved import profile but didn't refresh the field matching properly, so something is misaligned.