Adding contact types

Imagine you are managing a soccer club using CiviCRM. For some contacts—players—you would want to record the goals scored, attendance, age, playing position, injuries, and other data. For other contacts such as coaches, you would want to collect different data: first aid qualifications, coaching qualifications, and so on. Having both these sets of data showing up on every contact summary screen does not make sense. What you need is to have two different sorts of contacts; contacts who are players and contacts who are coaches so that they both hold separate data. CiviCRM makes this easy to accomplish.

How to do it…

CiviCRM comes with three main contact types: individuals , households , and organizations. As we are dealing with individuals, we will create two subtypes of the the individual contact type, teachers and students. These subtypes inherit all the information you can collect from their parent contact type and can be extended to collect more information using custom...