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It would be great to have some way to have inherited or linked fields. For example, a statewide organization may create geographic regions to organize their members. The regions are applied to organization type records. But they would like to search for individuals employed by the organizations, based on that field.

So I would envision a structure similar to how membership relationships work --

We create a "region" field attached to the organization contact type.
There is an additional option to select a relationship, indicating other contacts who will inherit the field (preferably multi-select).
The value is passed to the related record in view only mode -- the field cannot be edited -- only the owner record can edit.

yeah, I was giving some thought to doing it that way.
the problem I foresee is if the parent value is changed -- there would need to be a way to recalculate the value for all children.
i probably could use the postprocess hook to grab the changed value and copy to the children.
will need to give it some thought.