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Hi,

Client has admin staff that create activities etc. for other staff and so they work with mostly the assigned to field, but are forgetting to assign to themselves when they create the activity when it's not for someone else.  The idea is they'll remember to remove themselves from it (or can do it later) but they "lose" the activity otherwise.

What is the best way to go about implementing this?  Is it just overriding the template for that form or should I perhaps be targeting the javascript or using the formBuild (is that right?) hook?

Any direction much appreciated.

Malks

Hi Xavier,

Yeah I get that the activity is still there, that's why I put it as "lose"  

I've written a calendar view for them that shows activities based on the assigned to fields which is what they work with most (admin people are creating a lot of activities for the rest of the business etc.) so showing activities using the added to field doesn't work as they don't want to see a lot of activities that they've created.

But they still need to see some of the activities they create.  They can assign themselves to it which is fine, but they are forgetting to do this and aren't seeing it in their calendar.  The solution wanted by the business is that the activity be assigned to them by default (so it will still appear in their calendar) and then they can un-assign if they forget.

Thanks.

Sure, where would I share this?  On github?  I am planning on writing a few little how to pages too (have one almost done on writing custom actions for search results), so on a general level where would you put this sort of stuff?

I saw Hertzel's blog post, it's good stuff.

OK, I don't think this as easy as I thought, as the assigned to field is an input that gets changed to an autocomplete so other jQuery is targeting it.  I thought I could just add an li to the list of autocomplete values but my jQuery is called before the autocomplete I think.  Is there any way around this that anyone can think of?

Nope I don't think that works either as load() is not really different from ready() in this case because it works on the DOM at the time it was called according to the jQuery FAQ.  There is now live() which gets around this for some events but not for load.  I think what I'm going to have to do is delegate the load event to a parent and use event bubbling (these are all new terms for me and do it like that.  Live and learn.

Further to this, I can get it working if I use setTimeout, so I'm targeting the right elements, but that's not ideal either as you don't really know how long you should be waiting for and feels hacky.

Hi Hershel,

Thanks for your response (here and on the blog).  I had come to pretty much the same conclusion myself about this working with jQuery   Modifying/Overriding the template for this doesn't feel like the right solution, so I'm thinking I might try it in hook_civicrm_buildForm and see if I can do it by populating the default values for the field.  That might be a number 4 for your list.

malks  - or do it in postprocess & set if empty to match the creator