Author Topic: Custom field similar to "current employer" field (Read 639 times)

adrian.mahlstein · August 16, 2012, 01:05:27 am

Dear all

I am trying to set up a custom field, which is similar to the "current employer" out-of-the-box field.

The field needs to be displayed in public to anonymous users, therefore the "contact reference autocomplete" field cannot be used.

My aim is to set up a "text field" that automatically creates a new organization if it doesn't exists yet.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any information regarding this subject in the web.

Would be very grateful for your support.

Best,
Adrian

JonGold · August 16, 2012, 07:53:46 am

Hi Adrian,

The "current employer" field is a bit of a special case, so unfortunately you can't point-and-click your way to this. Folks have talked about expanding this functionality to arbitrary relationships, but it hasn't happened yet.

However, what you're trying to do is a fairly easy intro to hooks, and could be done in a few lines of PHP. Check out hook_civicrm_post:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmpost

Jon

adrian.mahlstein · August 18, 2012, 02:35:41 am

Hi Jon

Thanks for the quick reply. I suspected this to be the case...

I will have a look at hook_civicrm_post and try to resolve things that way.

Best,
Adrian

Coleman Watts · August 19, 2012, 07:02:39 am

Why not just rename "current employer" to something else?

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