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Hi.  I'm experienced with Drupal, but brand new to CiviCRM.  I can't find the answer to this question anywhere in the forums or documentation...

In the "New Individual" form in CiviCRM, the Email and Phone fields (just as two examples), allow multiple entries, and there's a nice little 'add' link that exposes additional data entry fields if the user needs them.  However, when I add, say, the Phone field to CiviCRM Profile (so that I can expose it in Drupal user accounts), I can only add individual fields, e.g. Phone Primary, Phone Mobile, etc.  Is there a simple way to make those fields appear in the Drupal profile in the same way that they appear in CiviCRM, with the 'add' link?  Or do I have to recreate that functionality on the Drupal side via custom code?

Thanks.

You can't do this with core fields, but you can with custom fields. You can make a custom field (or group of fields) that repeats and then expose those in a profile and thereby allow Drupal users to update those fields, including the plus button, on their /user page.

Go to Administer -- Custom Data -- New Custom Data Group. Then choose "Contacts" for "Used For" and then you will see an option:

Does this Custom Data Group allow multiple records?

Hershel

My mistake. Lobo is, of course, correct. Now I recall that for the site where we wanted to do this, the issue was indeed that we would have had to hardcode the number of sets of data. I instead used a multi-valued CCK node type for that profile.

Sorry about that.