Survey: request to add new fields

[xavier]

Hi,

A petition is implemented as a kind of survey. The default fields are almost good enough, but we have a few that we need, and a few more that'd be nice to have. When I mean field, I mean "place to store that on a per survey basis".

NEED IT:

1) email: rationale, we need it as the sender of the "you need to click here to confirm your signature" and "thank you" emails (and we need different for different surveys)

2) petition page url: rationale, a petition has a website, or at least a page on a website, we want to display it on the thank you page, and use it to create the "FB like" & "tweet" buttons

WOULD BE NICE (but can almost leave with it)

1) Custom message for the confirmation/thank you
So we can put a special message, the latest news, a specific request for donation...
- workaround: use the instruction for volunteer field (that we don't need)

2) being able to set a petition to "private" (ie. only existing contacts can sign)

What should we put as new fields on survey, do without, use an existing field/table .... ?

[xavier]

Decisions on the chat with lobo now:

1) adding a loc_id field (FK on civicrm_loc_block )

2) adding 2 websites website_id and website_2_id FK on civicrm_website

And in less than 30 joins, you can get the email and website of the survey

CRM/Event/Form/ManageEvent/Location.php as an example of locblock

[xavier]

And about the custom bits of html in the templates

http://svn.civicrm.org/sfschool/trunk/templates/SFS/common/footer.tpl

and

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/tplstrings?reset=1

suggested improvment:

Code: [Select]

<div class="footer" id="civicrm-footer">
{crmDBTpl context='school family config' name='footer text'}
  If you want to change any of your (or your child's) Personal Information (name, email, phone), please send an email to <a href="mailto:update@sfschool.org">update@sfschool.org</a>
{/crmDBTpl}
</div>


end of the braindump, good night everyone.

X+

[xavier]

Actually, realise that we need more fields that that.

1) How complicated is it to add custom fields on a survey ?

2) in the meantime, I not too ugly workaround: I include a "footer.tpl", and override the footer.tpl with my custom template that
- contains a few lines of php to fetch the related drupal node "petition" (that contains a cck with the civicrm petition id )
- and display the title/url, whatever

in short, I use the drupal associated node as a way to store custom fields.

[Donald Lobo]

1. if i had to guess its a 10-20 hour project. but it definitely would help survey signficantly and help adapt it to different use cases (like petition, voter registration etc)

lobo