Author Topic: Adding another contact field to Activities (Read 560 times)

fen · February 03, 2011, 08:20:54 am

YouthBuild USA manages the operations of many "Sites" (a contact sub-type of Organization) and wants to use existing and custom Activity Types for logging phone calls, site visits, etc. that will all reference a Site. So along with the source, assignee and target_contact_ids, I'd like to add a site_contact_id field and e.g. be able to find all the activities related to a Site.

I'll be diving into this next week, but wanted to know 1) if others have added additional contact_ids to Activity Types and if they have any suggestions, and 2) is there an extension mechanism for this now (I don't see one off-hand).

Any ideas on where to start will be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking that I'll need a civicrm_activity_site table and hook_civicrm_post()...

Thanks,
=Fen

lcdweb · February 03, 2011, 08:26:27 am

hey Fen,
create a custom field for the activity type of type contact reference.
then use hook_civicrm_contactListQuery to limit the autocomplete select list to only contacts of that subtype

fen · February 03, 2011, 08:31:02 am

Thanks @lcdweb!

I'll let you know how that goes next week.

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