Author Topic: creating customized screen for each Activity in Civicase (Read 1788 times)

leapywca · October 14, 2009, 03:00:00 pm

hi,
I'm new to CiviCRM & CiviCase and had a question. I am using CiviCase for managing various programs for a non-profit organization. Each program is modelled as a case with various activities and each participant is enrolled to a program.

I was looking to customize screens for each activity. I have created custom data for each activity but wanted to modify fields which CiviCase puts in. So I wanted a few fields(eg. Medium, Location) which are not relevent to an activity(but relevent in other activities) to be supressed for few activities and not suppressed for others. Also making Medium a required field in few activities and not a required in others. Do I create .tpl file for each activity to achieve activity specific screens?

Thanks for any feedback!

Dave Greenberg · October 14, 2009, 10:56:54 pm

I think you should be able to accomplish this by implementing the buildForm hook in a custom additional module (and hence w/o modifying core PHP or TPL files).

This will require some PHP skills (and will be easier if you're already familiar with Drupal hooks).

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification

Ping us on IRC if you need help getting started.

leapywca · October 19, 2009, 10:53:28 am

Thanks for your reply Dave. I am trying to use buildForm hook to make the activity page customizable. I created a new module with .info and .module files. However I am running in difficulties. I am really new to CiviCRM and dont know where these functions in the hooks get the $formName and $form values from. Can I use these variables to check if user is in a specific activity? or there are other variables for activities?

demeritcowboy · October 19, 2009, 01:33:43 pm

Try CRM_Core_Error::debug_log_message(print_r($form, true)) in your module. This will show you the structure of the form object by outputting it into civicrm.log in sites/default/files/civicrm/upload.

Also you may be able to do some, but probably not all, of what you want with the existing activity extension mechanism. Take a look at CRM/Case/Form/Activity/XXX for an example of how they modify the activity form. It's done by naming convention - the filename should correspond to the activity type.

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