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Please check the profile documentation on the wiki. However I suspect you will be using custom data to collect the below information. You can only have one custom value per contact for each custom field. Your below case needs multiple values for each contact and hence i suspect custom data will not work

you could probably use activities to do the below, but we dont expose them in the joomla frontend. If activities do meet your requirements, you could write some custom code to expose a limited activity interface to the frontend

lobo

Not sure if it will help you but...

We also track volunteer hours.  I use CiviContribute for this and have created a Contribution type of volunteer hours.  It sounds like you may be needing something a little more advanced but at least have a look at the possibility.

Stoic.

Hey there gzimmerman,

Note that that exchange is quite old.

I am not sure that there is an out of the box way to expose activities in the front end using wordpress (which would probably be the ideal way to do this since activities have a duration field) so using contributions seems like a reasonable 'hack', but definitely a hack

Not sure if you can use a contribution page with collecting any $ so it might be that you will need to use that field but worth experimenting).  if you can create a page with contribution amount,  I would do like you suggested and create custom fields for the project and the amount of time spent.

Note that your project field could be a custom field reference to a contact subtype of organisation called project.

Someone else might jump in with a better idea but if they don't, let us know how it goes / have fun