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I'm building a drupal view on civicrm contacts.  This works well, I'm just curious about a checkbox option that shows up in the contact sub type: link this field to it's owner.  What does this do?  Selecting or unselecting it doesn't seem to change the view results.  Is this option the reason that when I adjust contact sub types directly in the MySQL data table, they don't show up in the CiviCRM front-end?

Thanks!

Thanks!  I'm going to ignore that check box from now on then ;-)

In the mean time, I've sorted out my "update contact sub type in MySQL" problem.  Turns out that the sub type name needs to enclosed in SoH markdown.

I'd never heard of it before, according to the SoH website "Markdown is a system for embedding formatting information in a document in the most unobtrusive way".  The "unobtrusive" part is certainly true, took me ages to realize it was there.  Anyway, if I enclose the subtype in SOH markdown in the update query, all works as expected.  To get the SOH markdown in the SQL-query, I entered one contact with the new contact sub type through the civicrm front-end, went to this record in the table and copied & pasted the value of that field in my SQL code.