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Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
August 16, 2013, 03:22:34 pm
Hello all!

This is my first post, so please excuse my being a sheer newbie. I'm cutting my teeth with Drupal (6) Views, trying to query some contact CiviCRM data, and I realised there is no 'addressee' field available to Views.

I need to show this field to the user, because we have different ways of showing full names (just showing 'display name' won't work for Vietnamese names, for instance), and Addressee is the field which has the right information.

Could anyone please point me into the right direction to solve this problem? I must admit I don't know whether this is a Drupal, Views, or CiviCRM issue -- I come from the WordPress world, and Drupal is a very strange animal at first contact.

Thanks a lot, and best from Slovenia!

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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
August 16, 2013, 08:45:36 pm
This should be pretty straightforward, it's basically the same as any other contact name field as far as display is concerned. Look in /civicrm/drupal/modules/views/components/civicrm.core.inc and basically just copy how first_name, middle_name, etc. are done.
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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
August 17, 2013, 02:19:54 am
Dear Coleman,

Thanks a lot for your help -- it now works! To help fellow users googling for similar answers I'll add that the file I ended up editing was /civicrm/drupal/modules/views/civicrm.views.inc. That should be because I'm on 4.1, I presume?

Anyway, the field name to use is 'addressee_display', and I had to flush all caches for Views to see the new field. Pretty straightforward indeed!

What concerns me now, is whether every CiviCRM upgrade will flatten this custom code out. Is that so? Anyone knows how to prevent that from happening?

Thanks a lot!

Carlitos

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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
August 17, 2013, 11:17:39 am
You are of course talking about the fundamental nature of open source software. If you contribute your code back to the project, then it will not only be available to you in future versions, but everyone else as well. The whole community gets stronger this way.
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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 10, 2013, 12:33:14 pm
Carlitos it would be great if you would contribute back your work! I also was looking for this functionality and was surprised not to find it.

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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 11, 2013, 01:28:38 am
Quote from: BrightBold on December 10, 2013, 12:33:14 pm
Carlitos it would be great if you would contribute back your work! I also was looking for this functionality and was surprised not to find it.

Well, I thought I had! In my previous message, I mean.

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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 11, 2013, 10:10:47 am
carlitos - i think the request is "please wrap your fix up as a patch and add to a new JIRA ticket" which you can do via the Issue Tracker link in top menu - hope that helps
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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 12, 2013, 12:32:10 am
Quote from: petednz on December 11, 2013, 10:10:47 am
carlitos - i think the request is "please wrap your fix up as a patch and add to a new JIRA ticket" which you can do via the Issue Tracker link in top menu - hope that helps

Oh, I see. I'm afraid I have no idea how to do that, sorry :( But still, I wouldn't consider my tinkering as a 'patch', more like guidelines on how to accomplish a task. As I see it, there's nothing inherently wrong with the default functionality -- I just needed to extend it to suit my particular needs.

Sorry to disappoint, I guess!

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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 12, 2013, 01:03:42 am
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the file I ended up editing was /civicrm/drupal/modules/views/civicrm.views.inc

can you at least flag what lines you changed, and what those changes were - might save someone else some brainache ;-)
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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 12, 2013, 03:37:33 am
Alright, noblesse oblige.

I added the following code to civicrm/drupal/modules/views/civicrm.views.inc, after a similar block, at line 321.

  //ADDRESSEE (added by Carlos Yoder on 17 August 2013)
  $data['civicrm_contact']['addressee_display'] = array(
    'title' => t('Addressee'),
    'help' => t('Addressee'),
    'field' => array(
      'handler' => 'civicrm_handler_field_contact_link',
      'click sortable' => TRUE,
    ),
    'argument' => array(
      'handler' => 'views_handler_argument',
    ),
    'filter' => array(
      'handler' => 'views_handler_filter_string',
      'allow empty' => TRUE,
    ),
    'sort' => array(
      'handler' => 'views_handler_sort',
    ),
  );

Hope this helps!

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Re: Need to expose addressee core field to Drupal views
December 12, 2013, 09:18:41 am

carlitos/petednz:

can we request one of u'll to file an issue and attach a PR to this. Might be a good addition to 4.4 :)

thanx

lobo
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