Author Topic: Adding custom fields to group entries (Read 5529 times)

ailgm · October 21, 2011, 01:55:57 pm

We'd like to add two (optional) fields to each entry/membership in some/all groups: notes and an order number.

A simple example where this would be used is to have a group of committee members. Each member has a role, e.g. chairperson, secretary, etc. and an order we'd like to list them in (1,2,3,...).

Maybe I'm not looking in the right spot, so if there is a way to extend the data of who is in a group (beyond group ID, contact ID), please point me to it. If not, suggestions as to how we could add a customization for it would be appreciated.

Erik Hommel · October 22, 2011, 01:35:09 am

We use relationships for that kind of thing? So the organization is added to CiviCRM and the relation between the organization and the member is 'chairperson' etc.

ailgm · October 22, 2011, 06:54:47 pm

Thanks for the idea.

That way seems to have several limitations, such as:

having to set up a fake contact for each such group you want,
having to use a single relationship (e.g. "member of") to be able to set up a smart group corresponding to each fake contact (to be able to have that list be a group that can be part of other groups),
not being able to manage entries in the same way as other group entries and
that the description/notes and (custom relationship field) order # is tied to the relationship, not the group membership.

It would be so much cleaner to be able to extend the group entry.

Erik Hommel · October 23, 2011, 11:59:53 am

In my situation, there is no 'fake' contact as the organisation is important too.....it is very possible that in your situation this is a 'fake' contact. If you want to use your suggested group approach, you will have to do something like this:

create your own table in the civicrm database, e.g. civicrm_group_extra
use the buildForm hook or the <template>.extra.tpl functionality to add data to the forms you want the data on and to retrieve the data (you might want to create your own API)
use the postProcess hook to store data in your table

Obviously you can also get a CiviCRM developer to do this for you?

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