Author Topic: Adding non-built-in-derived contact types (Read 712 times)

Ingmar · July 16, 2010, 06:07:29 am

I would like to use CiviCRM to manage a canine club with its members, groups and events. But of course also with the dogs. Now I can derive a dog from the built-in individual type, but that doesn't make too much sense (address, employee, ...).

The same would be true for a club of vintage car owners, or wine, or ... Anything can go.

So what I would like to do is set up a non-derived contact type "dog", with a drop down of breed, the gender, the parents, the discipline they play in, etc.

Is it anywhere possible to create another "built-in" contact type?
Or how difficult is it to do it in the source code if it can't be done from the administrative interface?

CiviTeacher.com · July 16, 2010, 11:31:22 am

Yes you can create additional Contact Types by going (in the menu) to Administer > Option Lists > Contact Types. I don't recommend you edit existing contact types. Rather create a new one for "Dog" and experiment adding custom fields (breed, color, etc) that are only available to Contacts of Type "Dog".

You could then create Relationship of type "Owner of/Owned By" that connect a Dog to an Individual.

All of this is in the Administer menu of CiviCRM. Poke around and you will find it.

Good luck.

Ingmar · July 16, 2010, 01:19:40 pm

Thx for the reply, however, I did that already.
New types created that way are derived of Individual, which includes stuff like address, email, employee, phone, etc... And that's exactly what I don't want. I want to create basically a NEW type of contact, without inheriting anything from a built-in one.

Or am I missing something here?

ffwd · July 20, 2010, 07:09:56 am

You could use the method mentioned above: create a contact type 'dog' based on 'individual' and add custom fields through 'Administer' > 'Customize' > 'Custom data'. Set 'Used for' to 'dog'.

Then, goto 'Administer' > 'Customize' > 'CiviCRM Profile' and create a profile for dogs. You can add a number of fields from individual and the custom fields you need. You can add the profile to the navigation menu, see: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/CapturingExposing (Under Linking to your Form)

Ingmar · July 20, 2010, 03:37:31 pm

Thx,

apparently I was missing something : RTFM

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