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Hi,

My name is Tim and I'm a Software Developer/(Front-End-)Engineer. I have about 10 years experience in PHP/HTML/JavaScript/CSS and programming languages in general. I'm about to embark on a pretty big project and CiviCRM is the Open Source solution of choice. My client is the New Zealand Arts foundation. We have a requirements document with some pretty generic requirements. We were hoping to cover most of the requirements with what CiviCRM offers out of the box.

Now, I posted a question @ http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,18022.0.html but since I'm new to CiviCRM I didn't understand all about profiles, even though I had read it about 3 times. Well, I could create "custom" fields using the UI:

I went to Administer->Customize->CiviCRM Profile and created new fields, no problem, including them on the registration form, no problem. However, when I went to Custom Data in the same sub menu and created Custom Fields, went ahead and created a custom autocomplete field, I couldn't find a way to include it in the CiviCRM Profile no matter what I did. Feeling very stupid here...

This might be a very basic question, but isn't there a way to put a custom data field into the registration form? It seems like something fairly basic, considering that CiviCRM is such a complex (and awesome!) piece of software. So, this is not to complain that something is not possible, just checking if this feature exists and if not, I'm keen to spend some time to get to grips with the CiviCRM architecture (know Drupal already fairly well) and implement this feature.

Talking of possible new features: Is there a way to add multiple instances of the same profile into say the registration form or another data entry form? One of the requirements is to have one or MORE locations for an artist's event or happening of project.

Hope I could give an idea of the sort of thing we want to achieve. Just wanted to put this out there in the spirit of Open Source. Of course my work would be contributed back to Civi in terms of Drupal/Civi modules.

Hi, thanks again for your quick answers. 

1. I meant User Registration.
2. I extended Artist, based on Individual and made the custom data field/group extend this object. Also tried simply extending individual and contact to no avail.
3. No I cannot add this custom field to any profile as I cannot see the option any where. When I add a field to a profile it only gives me the option of adding a new field and not an existing custom data field.

If I add a new field, no problem it appears in the user registration form, but I would like to include custom fields in the user registration. If this is not possible with even the current development version, no problem, I might need to put some work in to extend civi, but it seems like an obvious thing. I would like to understand civi a bit better before i double up work.

Created a custom autocomplete field, but cannot add it to the user registration.

I'm running CiviCRM 4.1.1 on Drupal 7.12.