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Hi,

I've upgraded a site to CiviCRM 3.1 that used to be on 2.2. The upgrade has gone fairly smoothly. However, in the old version I'd edited some of the relevant .tpl files in order to reorder the different form sections of the contact edit screen. With the new version, there is now the possibility of hiding and showing different sections in the CiviCRM global settings. However, this also means that reordering the form elements is less straightforward. Specifically, I'm looking to put the Communications Preferences section next to the Custom Data section on the form. Actually, there is one custom field that I would ideally like to make appear within the Communications Preferences section of the contact edit form, but I assume that this would be even more work.

I can see that the table civicrm_preferences has a column 'contact_edit_options' with what appears to be a list of form section ID numbers. But editing the value of that field to reorder the elements doesn't seem to affect the form rendering.

Any suggestions on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
-Ian