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Hi Lobo,
We spoke about this very briefly before, but to recap... Our use case is this:
We have a large number of users each of which represents an organisation, the organisation subtype has a number of custom fields, we would like users to be able to edit these fields.
At present the option to allow users to edit the data of the organisation they work for is great, but limited to some of the default fields and obviously none of the custom fields.

We are in the process of putting together a funding application for the directory we are working on and I'd like to include the cost of sponsoring this change in there. Could you let me know what the likely cost would be of such a change, the likely lead in time you'd need and anything else I'm likely to need?

Also I wonder whether you keep a database of organisations interested in sponsoring specific features, I know you mentioned that this feature as been requested before by professional associations, it would be good to try and find co-sponsors for some of the changes we'd like to see if we can't raise all the money (especially as this is only the first of three changes we'd like to see). Or is this something best done through the forums?

Many thanks and keep up the great work,
Durruti

Hi Lobo,
Thanks for getting back to me on that.  For us it would seem to make sense for it to be more dynamic as we are already dealing with subtypes. So we are talking about at least $8-10,000? This would take it over anything we could get funded so I'd be very interested in the idea of floating these ideas somewhere where different organisations can chip-in.
There are also a number of other issues that we'd like to look at such as the ability of contacts to be more than 1 subtype, which I know others have expressed an interest in as well. I'm happy to put a bit of time into developing somewhere people can write up ideas and make pledges, what's the preferred way of doing this?
Many thanks again,
Matt