3rd Profile Type

I am looking for a way to create a 3rd profile type in addition to Person and Organization. My site has individual people and organizations, but it also has cockatoos that get their own individual profiles. I have created a handful of custom fields that only apply to this third type (band number, microchip, medical history, recall-trained, etc.), which I do not want displayed on the Person profiles since they do not apply. Having a separate profile type would make it a lot easier to segregate out all of the essential data into separate fields instead of dumping it all in the description.

Alternately, if I could have the custom fields display or not depending on what's selected in the species field (human versus the 16 cockatoo species) that would work, but it would require that field being set before the rest of the data gets entered. That seems like a more complicated way to do it.

I'm open to other suggestions on how to do this, maybe a secondary form that does not get used for the people?

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    • Hello @vermilionbridge !

      As cockatoos can't register on the site without his / her owner then it would be better to register people as the organizations and their pets - as the persons there. Also, it is possible to use different permissions levels.

      • Thank you for your suggestion. It wouldn't work well to have the people register as organizations because then there isn't a clear enough distinction from actual organizations (avian veterinarian facilities, parrot rescues, etc.). I think I am going to need to make the structure work through permissions, as you noted.

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