Author Topic: How to change "User ID" field output on View Contact page (Read 596 times)

drupleg · November 24, 2010, 01:48:45 pm

Hello, I'm looking to remove or change the "User ID" field when viewing a contact record in CiviCRM. I think this will confuse the non-technical users I unleash this CiviCRM site upon - as the "CiviCRM ID: xxxx" is actually the record ID they need to be concerned with. I've dug in to tpl files and found $drupalID, crm_uf_get_uf_id, uf_id, etc, but now I'm getting pretty deep down the rabbit hole and I'm seeking advice from someone who might know the best practice on this issue. I've looked into a few ways in no particular order:

simply hide the field with css, but the <td> tag as no class to target , even nth child won't work because IE doesn't support it
wordreplacement - change "User ID" to "Website User ID", this works, but is still confusing.
customizing the .tpl file somehow, which I've done for Contribute pages no problem, but all I see is variables in these Summary.tpl files related to viewing contact records, I don't see HTML output that I can target or remove.
lastly - I think it might be neat to wordreplacement the 'User ID" with "Website Username" and show the username rather than the Drupal ID.

Thank you!
-Tony

Dave Greenberg · November 24, 2010, 04:20:28 pm

You can definitely customize Summary.tpl and remove those two columns OR add css classes to them. Look for the code section below. I do think we should add classes to most / all of the cells in the contact summary to allow more css manipulation. If you want to work on a patch which does this for 3.3 that would be cool. I actually added classes in the snippet below to show the pattern we usually use for this type of selector ("crm-$fieldName-label", "crm-$fieldName-value").

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{if $userRecordUrl}
     <td class="label crm-userRecordId-label">{ts}User ID{/ts}</td><td class="crm-userRecordId-value"><a title="View user record" class="user-record-link" href="{$userRecordUrl}">{$userRecordId}</a></div>
{/if}

Some folks also suggested Username (User ID) would be a good improvement (we'd want to keep the ID in parentheses since some people find it useful). A patch for that would also be welcome.

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Author Topic: How to change "User ID" field output on View Contact page (Read 596 times)

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How to change "User ID" field output on View Contact page

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