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While configuring our new site we wish to make a new type of record (the default ones include Individual, Organization, ect).  We would like to be able to select a custom record type when creating a new custom data group (it would appear in the drop down next to "Used For").  I've done some searching and haven't been able to find how this is done or if it is possible, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply - so does this mean we aren't able to add new data types at all?  For example we are interesting in creating a department object where our non profit would be able to add new departments, view all current departments and remove departments - each department would have a list of programs they offer and the programs would have specific events associated with them.

Also we were looking to change the functionality of adding a new user.  Since there is no UI based way to remove some of the default fields in adding a new individual we were trying to make our own custom page for adding a new individual.  We did this by making a new custom profile and adding custom data fields to it then linking to that profile.  The problem is when we actually try to create a new user based on our custom page it essentially adds this new user component to the account we are logged in as instead of creating a new account like we want.