'Communication preferrences' not in edit form but remain in contact summary.

[Durruti]

Hello all,
We don't register 'communication preferences' as part of our installation and therefore I've disabled it in the edit page of 'site preferences'. However I still have the 4 unwanted fields on my contact summary page. Looking at the CRM/Contact/Page/View/Summary.php page, the
only reference I see is as follows;

//Show blocks only if they are visible in edit form
        require_once 'CRM/Core/BAO/Preferences.php';
        $this->_editOptions  = CRM_Core_BAO_Preferences::valueOptions( 'contact_edit_options' );
        $configItems = array( 'CommBlock'     => 'Communication Preferences',
                              'Demographics'  => 'Demographics',
                              'TagsAndGroups' => 'Tags and Groups',
                              'Notes'         => 'Notes' );

Which I guess should mean that I don't see them? Could it be because 1 of the fields is populated (Email format: both) that I'm still seeing this? I'm not sure where this setting has come from but I could go through the database and remove it if it would help.
Many thanks for any ideas.
Durruti

[Kurund Jalmi]

I would recommend customizing Summary.tpl and use custom templates rather than modifying php code.

Kurund

[Durruti]

Hi Kurund,
Thanks for the quick response. It's my first time using custom templates, so following the documentation here's what I've done.

• Created a 'civicrm_templates' directory in my sites/all folder and made it writable
• Created the following directory structure within the above folder 'CRM\Contact\Page\View' and copied the Summary.tpl file to it.
• added the following to civicrm.settings.php "define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', '/var/www/vhosts/<mysite>/httpdocs/sites/all/civicrm_templates/' );"
• Removed the following from Summary.tpl

Code:

<div class="contact_panel">
                        <div class="contactCardLeft">
                            <table>
                                <tr><td class="label">{ts}Privacy{/ts}</td>
                                    <td><span class="font-red upper">
                                        {foreach from=$privacy item=priv key=index}
                                            {if $priv}{$privacy_values.$index}<br />{/if}
                                        {/foreach}
                                        {if $is_opt_out}{ts}No Bulk Emails (User Opt Out){/ts}{/if}
                                    </span></td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="label">{ts}Preferred Method(s){/ts}</td><td>{$preferred_communication_method_display}</td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="label">{ts}Preferred Language{/ts}</td><td>{$preferred_language}</td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="label">{ts}Email Format{/ts}</td><td>{$preferred_mail_format}</td>
                                </tr>
                            </table>
                        </div>

[/li]

When I refresh a directory has been created in my custom templates directory alongside CRM called en_US containing lots of sub-directories called %%02 to %%F0, but might changes to the template are not getting picked up.
What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Durruti

[Kurund Jalmi]

You don't need to add anything in civicrm.settings.php. You should check this: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/DevelopTemplates

Kurund