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CiviCRM v3.1: Extending Custom groups to handle multiple relationship / event types

Not Just a Contact Database

These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.

  • civiCASE

  • Case management for clients and constituents.

  • civiEVENT

  • Online event registration and participant tracking.

  • civiMEMBER

  • Online signup and membership management.

  • civiMAIL

  • Personalized email blasts and newsletters.

  • civiREPORT

  • Report generation and template management.

September 28, 2009 - 20:31 — CiviCRM Team

The team is starting to roll on CiviCRM v3.1. One of the sponsored items is the ability to allow one custom group to be used with multiple relationship types. I'll use relationship types as my example here. This feature will also work with other objects that can be extended: specifically In v3.0 and prior a custom group can only be used for one specific relationship type. This feature will allow a custom group to extend one or more relationship types. Thus we can create a custom group which extends the relationships of type: Employer / Employee AND Parent/Child AND Teacher/Student

Some of the specific features that will be added as part of this project include:

  • Allow a custom group to extend the same object with different types. Thus a custom group can extend the relationship table for 1 or more specific relationship types. Specifically this list includes: contacts, contact sub-types, relationships, activities, contributions, events, memberships and participants.
  • Currently the custom group settings cannot be changed (what object and types it extends). If there are no values in the value table, we will allow the types to be changed. If there are values, we will allow additional types to be added (but current types cannot be removed to prevent potential data loss)
  • If time permits, allow custom groups to extend events and participants of a specific Event Type.

The issue for this feature is at: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-5143. We'll add sub-issues and more details as we start work on this

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Comments

September 29, 2009 - 00:19 — Eileen

Cool

Will you also allow adding custom fields for participants in a particular event type (at the moment you can do a particular event or a particular role but not apply it to all participants registering for an event with a specific event type)

September 29, 2009 - 06:21 — CiviCRM Team

Not on the current development list ..

but if we do have time and a few cycles, we'll add that. A bit wierd that we did not do that in the first place

lobo

September 28, 2009 - 22:05 — xavier

Can it work for activities as well ?

Being able to add custom groups per activity could open the ability to create petitions or surveys more easily

September 29, 2009 - 06:20 — CiviCRM Team

Create an activity type ...

You should probably create an activity type called Petition, and then add a custom group extending Petition. This should work in 3.0 and prior

lobo