Author Topic: Howto rebuild the "current employer" field features for a different field? (Read 477 times)

sm · September 26, 2013, 03:01:32 am

Hi! I'm new here and I am glad to work with CiviCRM! I hope someone can help me with the following problem:

The "current employer" field has this cool feature that it autocreates an organization/employer if it doesn't exist yet. In addition to this field we want a second one, a sort of duplication of this field. (Scenario: A person has an employer and an organization he or she is active in as a volunteer.)

I manually created a custom field. I lets me select existing organizations. But if the organization does not yet exist, I can't enter it and it is not automatically created.

Can I rebuild the features of the current employer field?

Thanks for help!

Donald Lobo · September 26, 2013, 07:17:42 am

You'll need to write custom code for this and clone the current employer behavior

however the current employer behavior is a bit of a hack and relies on the organization_name field being empty in the DB. You wont have be able to use that field for the volunteer and might need to create a new database column

please share your changes if you do implement something

lobo

Coleman Watts · September 26, 2013, 09:56:24 am

Since you are on drupal, you could also look at using a webform for this. Webform-CiviCRM-Integration can let you build that sort of behavior for any field.

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Author Topic: Howto rebuild the "current employer" field features for a different field? (Read 477 times)

sm

Howto rebuild the "current employer" field features for a different field?

Donald Lobo

Re: Howto rebuild the "current employer" field features for a different field?

Coleman Watts

Re: Howto rebuild the "current employer" field features for a different field?