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in general i would first think about data and what data u want to collect rather than what tools.

for general data collection from your member base, u should use profiles and webform. Both allow u to assemble fields and create from from your DB

webform is a lot lot more powerful with some amazing features, so strongly recommend folks use (and also contribute towards making it even better) that (in drupal)

lobo

It looks like I am able to get this to work just by creating a series of profiles and linking them together.

However, each set of data (profile) needs to be duplicated once a week and assigned to a certain entity. I had originally made each entity be a Campaign.  However, if I make my profiles use activity fields, they throw this error when trying to view the profile form: "Profile search, view and edit are not supported for Profiles which include fields for more than one record type.".
Even if I just put only one field in that's an activity I get that. Why?

What is the best way to make data repeatable but assigned to a different identity? (all within a single contact).  So every individual could have the same set of questions answered for a different entity?

For example... 
If the questions were "favorite color?" and "favorite type?"
and one week that question gets assigned to an entity called "Flowers" - User chooses "Pink" and "Roses".
next week the question gets assigned to an entity called "Animals" - User chooses "Brown" and "Beagles"
Later, an admin could go into the individuals profile and see - Flowers - Pink/Roses,  ANimals: Brown/Beagles

I am trying to look at it from the data end but I still don't know the best way to do it!

Quote from: christiemade on October 11, 2013, 08:00:29 am

Is there a webform for CiviCRM in Wordpress?

Unfortunately no

would be good to get a webform like integration (maybe with gravity forms?) for wordpres

lobo

There is also no webforms equivalent for Joomla.

IMHO, civicrm needs better integration with Joomla and Wordpress - you should not assume that civicrm users are using drupal.