Hi Renee,
If registration approval is enabled for a registration path, then the registrant will have to fill out all of the required fields and questions present on the registration path at that time. There is not a way to only capture minimal registration fields until they are approved - it will show them everything present on the registration path at that time. I recommend submitting this as a product idea within Participate > Product Ideas for our product team to consider as a future enhancement request.
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Julia Plymack
Senior Customer Success Manager
Cvent
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