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Our users really badly want to see the details associated with an activity; out-of the box they have to click “view” to see the detail which takes a long time if they don’t know which particular activity record they need to look at.

There isn’t really a way to make that form wider unless we all got very big screens :-) Is it possible in the current architecture to have a two-line view for each activity eg

TYPE  SUBJECT  ADDED BY  WITH  ASSIGNEED  DATE  STATUS <BR>
First 80 or so characters of the associated details field

If not, how hard might it be to copy some activity details to a note (preserving date/time/who/what) – is this doable with a hook?

Or is there another, better way?

Thanks in anticipation

Thanks, that does sound very elegant, but may not be fast enough for our users, as they really want to be able to scan the details associated with a number of activities as quickly as possible when our members are on the phone.

I won't be programming it anyway, as it's way outside my skill set...

DMA,

Yes, there is another way with hooks. You could quite easily make a custom tab and in that tab display whatever you want. In your case, you could display a custom view of your activities data, with all details. This is in fact not a large programming job.

I know this is an old thread but just wondering if there was any progress on any of this. Need to have more info on the activities tab too and any of this would be very useful! I like lobo's idea of 'using some jQuery code and API v3 (in 3.4 and later) and show details and other info via a mouseover / overlay' - has anyone done this already?

Thanks!