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Divide Profile Into Sections?
July 09, 2010, 01:49:03 pm
I have an event reg form that I am working on that has 2 profiles. One is to collect contact information and the other collects the workshop selections. In the profile for the workshop selections, I have different types of selections to be made

Please Select a Pre-Conference Workshop (radio button selector)
foo
bar
baz

Please select a workshop for each time slot
Friday Aug 13 10:00 am - 11:45 am
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Workshop 3

Fri Aug 13 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Workshop 4
Workshop 5
Workshop 6
(repeat as needed)

What I would like to do is have a section header, for lack of a better term, that would visually break these apart. The way things work right now I can't find a way to put the "Please select a workshop for each time slot" into the form, apart from creating a custom form.

If this isn't possible, how difficult would it be to create a new profile field type called separator or section head to accomplish this? I would be willing to give it a go.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2010, 01:53:10 pm by qjensen »
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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
July 09, 2010, 02:41:45 pm
I've been working to get support for multiple profiles in online registration forms, basically for the same reason as what you're describing.

There's an issue for it here http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-6256 , though I have not yet posted a patch for it.

Would this solve your problem?

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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
July 10, 2010, 03:19:31 pm
That is exactly what I want to accomplish. Allowing unlimited profiles would be a better long term solution, and from the looks of things, easier than my idea of allowing some kind of separator field type in profiles.

I am pretty new to CiviCRM development, but I would be willing to help with this code if you are looking for assistance.
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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
August 16, 2010, 02:00:28 pm
That is something we struggle with every time we need to create a longer profile. Most clients requests that we allow them to display some kind of header before a group of fields with the same purpose, like Personal Information, Availability, Additional Information.

So far we don't have a pretty solution so the ability to either display several profiles or to add a field to a profile that will be called "header" would work. That "header" field should not show up in the Contact profile information but only on the profile, when data is entered.
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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
August 16, 2010, 02:10:20 pm
Hi,

Are you aware you can write a custom template just for one profile ?

Then you can split the fields and display them exactly the way you want.

(Kurund even did a nice wizard, he wrote a blog post about it if I recall properly)

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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
August 16, 2010, 02:40:23 pm
Are you referring to this page? http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Customize+Built-in%2C+Profile%2C+Contribution+and+Event+Registration+Screens

I find it cumbersome to create a profile and then create a template and manually list every field in the template .. As soon as there is any change in the profile, the template has to be modified.

I would like to see an option like I've seen in, for example, Webform module for Drupal and other places where, when you add a field to a form, you can decide if this is a "fieldset" type of field. If it is, it's span across 2 columns and doesn't have a label, only a value is displayed as a title for that field.

To sum this up, a field "header" type that:
- is a view only field
- spans across 2 columns (label and value filed) on the profile form
- can contain html
- is not displayed on the contact profile unless it's in the "edit" state
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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
August 16, 2010, 03:57:38 pm
Hi,

You got much more freedom, but yes, more cumbersome.  To make it easier, I tend to loop on the fields, and test the id to decide if I create a new "block" before the field or not.

This being said, having as many profiles as you want would be a good addition indeed. to my knowledge, no code as landed in CiviCRM on that, so custom template is the next best solution ;)

This being said, if you have some budget, might help convince TwoMice to finish the code and submit it...

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Re: Divide Profile Into Sections?
August 17, 2010, 05:18:39 am

this would make a very nice community contribution :)

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