I am new to SugarCRM. I have reviewed the documentation. I am the latest version. I am want to add a group of custom fields. I want to know the best way to do this.

Basically I want to add a little an entire section for leads/contacts that shows if a lead/contact has attended any number events. I would also like the system users to be able to add new events if needed.

It seems like this will be a fairly involved process. Can anyone jumpstart me?

Here is the sample HTML that I would like to add to the Add Lead/Contact submission form:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<legend>Events Attended</legend>
<div style="width:450px; clear:both;">
<div style="width:150px; float:left">
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 1</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 2</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 3</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 4</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 5</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 6</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 7</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 8</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 9</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 10</label><br />
</div>
<div style="width:150px; float:left">
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 11</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 12</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 13</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 14</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 15</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 16</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 17</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 18</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 19</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 20</label><br />
</div>
<div style="width:150px; float:left">
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 21</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 22</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 23</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 24</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 25</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 26</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 27</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 28</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 29</label><br />
<input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="" /><label>Event 30</label><br />
</div>
<div><label>Add an event</label><input name="Add an Event" type="text" /></div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

If I can do this I have a similiar need in the accounts section.

Thank you, Sean