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So I'm totally new to the Civi world, but looking for a quick solution. We need multi-record fields to show up in profiles for registration and self-updates. As this is not in the plans for Civi in the near future, do you think it would be possible to create a regular custom field, put it in the profile, and then run a hook to populate the multi-record fields on save?

The custom fields just need to be hidden from the other views while the tabs would be the main screen for data manipulation. The only downside I see is that we have extra tables with data, but if I understand hooks correctly, this should be possible.

Am I on to something or way off?