Author Topic: How to default an Activity type in New Activity form (Read 886 times)

athemiya · March 31, 2011, 03:16:16 am

Hi all!

Nice to be part of the forums and community. Have been using CiviCRM for a few months now and I'm now getting the tricky parts of customisation I would love help on.

In creating a New Activity -at the top we get "Activity Types". I have managed to customise the system to get rid of the default meeting, phone calls etc and created a new custom field: 'Volunteer Opportunity'.

How can I tell the system to automatically default to Volunteer Opportunity as soon as a user clicks on New Activity and ensure that the relevant custom fields appear?

I have looked in the activity.tpl templates and also the source code and can't see where I would do this?

Help much appreciated

Regards,
Athemiya

xavier · March 31, 2011, 03:22:38 am

If you have already modified the template, the easiest is probably to add a bit of jquery to change it.

(not tested code:)

{literal}
<script>
jQuery(function($) {
$("#activity_type_id").val(42);
});
</script>
{/literal}

athemiya · March 31, 2011, 03:27:45 am

Hi Xavier,

Thanks for the rapid response.

Would I inject this into Activity.tpl?
So it would be:

Code: [Select]

{literal}
<script>
jQuery(function($) {
  $("#activity_type_id").val(558);
});
</script>
{/literal}

Where 558 is the ID of my field: Volunteer Opportunity?

Regards,
Athemiya

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