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Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 05, 2009, 01:04:50 pm
Can Demographics be made to be a 'core' Custom Data Group, that we users can then decide whether to include as Tab or Inline, and also add more Custom Data Groups to?

Or is this already possible and I have missed it?
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Re: Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 05, 2009, 01:47:21 pm

There currently is no 'core' custom data group :) demographics information is part of the contact record currently

You do have the option of not showing it in the preferences screen.

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Re: Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 05, 2009, 02:06:33 pm
Understood - but several people have suggested/asked about how to add more demographics data. So I was wondering what would be the downside of reconcieving demographics as a 'custom data group' that happens to already have a couple of fields included when we do the install - and thereby allowing people to extend that section rather than having a 'Demographics' section that is so limited, and having to create another 'demographics' section to capture other 'demographic-type' data?
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Re: Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 05, 2009, 02:50:16 pm

It is possible to do so, but will involve a fair amount of work in restructuring and moving stuff away from the contact table. It will also introduce the notion of "custom groups" shipped that can be enabled/disabled/extended etc.

Would be great for someone to step up and either code this feature and/or sponsor it to make it happen. I suspect its at least 40-60 worth of work (u'll need to to also fix import/export/search etc)

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Re: Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 05, 2009, 08:00:10 pm
Points noted - it won't be us on this gig - probably one of those awful features that many would get a tiny benefit from so probably won't happen ;-(
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Re: Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 28, 2009, 09:54:32 pm
Hi,

Do you think this
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,6350.msg27976.html#msg27976

could solve your problem ?

(bonus question, could you participate in the funding of that) ?
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Re: Demographics as a 'Core' Data Group
January 28, 2009, 10:01:35 pm
Could be - see comment on that thread ;-)
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