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I've been given a mission to design and build the ultimate view and edit contact page for our client dashboard: Tabs, inline editing, support for multiple emails /  mobile phones, tables of activities grouped by (groups of) types etc.

Many of these elements (i.e. the email addresses block that supports multiple emails) is available as default on the CiviCRM contact page.

My questions are:

1) What is the best way for us to make this page? A CiviCRM extension? A modified CiviCRM profile (which doesn't appear to support multiple email/phones)? Or a Drupal page with blocks and views etc?

2) How can we integrate squares (avoiding the use of the word block here) like the CiviCRM email block neatly into this page?

It is indeed!

Part of our service to schools is to provide a dashboard that teachers can log into. They need to be able to view some, but not all, data. We try to group different activities sensibly etc, and hide ones that don't need to be shown. In particular, they don't need to see events that their alumni have attended at different schools etc.

ultimate view and edit contact page for our client dashboard

Hershel's idea is nice but I am wondering if normal civicrm access has the simplicity and the usabliy you are looking for in this particular use case.

We originally did the dashboard with  slightly customised and re-themed profiles so it was maintainable and reasonably quick to develop. Sounds like we might now have hit the limit of profiles though.  If you want it to be really sexy and have time to spend developing and mantaining it, then API and some fancy js framework, maybe??? Obviously don't want to go down that road lightly.

Michael