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Adding fields to Contact Summary
August 01, 2010, 10:46:15 am
I'm trying to add a Spouse field to the Contact Summary page that acts similar to the Employee field.  I would like it pull the relationship on for the summary and then have the auto complete on the edit page.  From going through the documentation there seems to be multiple ways of going about this.  It looks like I could use the api in templates, add code in the custom php directory, use hooks, etc. 

Is there a recommended way to do this type of customization?  Ideally something that is the least likely to break on a version update.  Thanks for your help.

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Re: Adding fields to Contact Summary
August 01, 2010, 11:19:17 am

if you can do this all in the templates via template customization and usign crmAPI i would use that approach. that seems to be the least invasive (IMO)

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Re: Adding fields to Contact Summary
August 01, 2010, 11:31:00 am
Thanks for your feedback.  The only thing I'm not too sure about with using templates and crmAPI is how to update the information after an edit.  Are you aware of any examples of this being done in templates?

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Re: Adding fields to Contact Summary
August 01, 2010, 05:29:26 pm

no, have not done a lot of modifications via templates

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Re: Adding fields to Contact Summary
August 02, 2010, 12:43:46 am
You would probably need to use a hook (postProcess or pre) to update after the edit.
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Re: Adding fields to Contact Summary
August 07, 2010, 11:09:41 am
If anyone is interested, I used this code in hook_civicrm_buildForm to add the fields:
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$form->addElement( 'text', 'spouse', ts( 'Spouse' ) );
$form->addElement( 'hidden', 'spouse_id', NULL, array('id'=>'spouse_id'));
$defaults = array( 'spouse' => $spouse, 'spouse_id' => $spouse_id );
$form->setDefaults( $defaults );

And this code in hook_civicrm_postProcess to get the submitted values:
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$values = $form->getVar( '_submitValues' );
$spouse_id = $values['spouse_id'];
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