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I  would like to use the multi-record custom fields to store volunteering skills for individuals. For example, can Jane Doe cook? drive? play an instrament?  I would also like to track if she is willing to travel outside her area to volunteer.   So I created a Custom field data group called "Volunteering Prefs" and made it capable of holding multiple records.  Then I added 2 fields to this group: "skills" ( alphanumeric) and "willing to travel"  ( yes/no).   

But for each skill Jane has, I could provide a different answer for "willing to travel" .      So I moved the custom field "skills" into its own group with no other fields.  It is very awkward to have to create a special group for any custom field where I want multiple values.    Could this feature be enhanced so that I could mark the custom field as capable of multiple values?

Which UI screens would be more complex?   In the select list for custom field type, just have some extra options in the list, such as "Alphanumeric ( multiples)", "Decimal ( multiples) "

Perhaps you can structure the code in manor to make it a possible future enhancement for another version.

Thanks

I would like to store any specialized skills that my volunteers have. That way I can search for volunteers who can do legal work, or drive, etc.   Without multi-record custom fields, how would I accomplish this?

i've written a custom search to allow export of all multiple values custom fields Hopefully ths will help in the short term

integrating multi-valued custom groups with profiles is our next priority in a future release

lobo