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In the object model I am using, Households do not have e-mail addresses -- e-mail addresses belong only to Individuals.

That means that I would like  to eliminate all mention of, display of, or prompting for e-mail addresses every time a Household is created, edited, or displayed.

I'm not sure whether I ought to be doing this at the data abstraction level, or at the template level.

I am willing to create a new contact type, e.g. "X-household" which is  a subtype of "Household"

Suggestions, anyone?

For the time being, I accomplished what I want by hacking CRM/Contact/Form/Contact.php to exclude the unwanted blocks by modifying the code right after 240, but that seems mighty ugly.  Is there a more appropriate way to do this using a hook?

       

// get the location blocks.                                                                                                               
        $this->_blocks = $this->get( 'blocks' );

        if ( CRM_Utils_System::isNull( $this->_blocks ) ) {
            $this->_blocks = CRM_Core_BAO_Preferences::valueOptions( 'contact_edit_options', true, null,
                                                                     false, 'name', true, 'AND v.filter = 1' );
            // ditch email, im, etc. for household                                                                                               
            if ( $this->_contactType == 'Household' ) {
              $this->_blocks = array('Phone' => 'Phone');
            }
            $this->set( 'blocks', $this->_blocks );

        }
        $this->assign( 'blocks', $this->_blocks );