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It appears as though you can't create new contact types beyond Individuals, Organizations, etc. Specifically, I can associate a custom data group with Individuals, but not with a specialization of Individuals. However, it also appears that you can use profiles to accomplish the same thing. If I have Custom Groups A and B, I could associate them both with Individuals, then create Profiles A and B where A only showed the A group fields and B only showed the B group fields.

Am I correct in believing a) that this is true and b) that I could apply profiles in all the places I need to (create contact, search contact, view contact, etc.)?

1) if you don't need one of them (eg. household) you can rename it to something more specific (I did it to deal with "committee")

Unfortunately I need several individual sub-types and 2 organization sub-types, so I'm way beyond 3 types total. If there isn't already an enhancement request for custom contact types I'll create one.

We do prefer a patch that addresses the issue along with the enhancement request. If just a suggestion, we prefer it be discussed in the forum: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,18.0.html

Still way too much of a CiviCRM n00b to start writing or contributing patches. Will take the dicsussion to the forum as requested.

Note: have been doing my best to read, Google, and experiment before posting questions like this.

Hey Outinsun - can you flesh out a bit more about how you intend using your sub-types - with some real examples - you may find suggestions for some other workable routes using what is already available in civiCRM.

There is only so many hours / day or so many features we can pack in any release. I suspect this will come in a future 2.x/3.x release

if this is important to you consider contributing code and/or sponsoring this feature. this kinda helps ensure it makes it into a sooner rather than later release

lobo

Hi,

you can certainly use profiles to edit, view, list contacts, and have as many different as you want (that's also easy to get different templates)


As for the 3 types of contacts:
1) if you don't need one of them (eg. household) you can rename it to something more specific (I did it to deal with "committee")
2) there is here and there in the code stuff to deal with sub-types. I'm not sure how finished and easy to configure it is (never used it, just some things in the code)

X+

How did you manage to rename "Household" ?

You can either create a new language or (as I did) modify UK english to "translate" Household into whatever you want.

X+

Hi,

Can you please explain little more, where and what do I have to change, in order to change existing language words, or create new language.

Is it something that can be done with admin settings or some code change is needed?