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Organizations and custom fields
April 03, 2014, 03:44:08 am
Hi,

My friend wants to be able to assign categories (i.e. sports/biz/news) and a relevancy (a scale 0-5) to the RSS feeds of Organizations. Some organizations have < 5 feeds but some have 20 to 30. And, as you may imagine, searching by the categories and relevancy fields is wanted, such as find all the sports feeds with the highest relevancy.

I've tried with custom fields and an organization sub-type but ran into trouble, Sorry, I don't remember the details.

How could this be done?

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Re: Organizations and custom fields
April 03, 2014, 12:04:23 pm
Multi field could work ie you have a Field Group on Org called RSS feeds with 2 or more fields eg
- category (checkbox perhaps)
- rating (radio or select)

I haven't kept fully up to speed on where the limitations are with multi fields.

Otherwise if the RSS feeds are actually being pulled in to Drupal then you might want to do the fields on the Drupal side
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Re: Organizations and custom fields
April 09, 2014, 02:21:12 am
petednz,
Thanks for answering.
The only limitation I've found is doesn't seem possible to to export the multi-record custom fields.  This is discussed in
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,29263.msg125507.html#msg125507, which ended with a decision to use other methods to export the data.
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