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I imported a batch of contacts into CiviCRM and they all included custom greetings.  All of those custom greetings are in my db, but I can't find a place in CiviCRM where you can view or edit those custom greetings.  Where is the editable "Custom Greeting" field?

Eileen,  thanks for your help but that's not the field I'm talking about.  If you import a batch of contacts, you can import custom greetings as well.  Those are in my database, but not showing when I edit the contact.  The Greeting field is actually a greeting type - not the custom greeting itself.

So what's happening to that custom greeting?

Although we don't expose it in the user interface, you can Export it from any contact search (using "Select fields for export"). Since one expected use case for this field is for mail-merge - the fact that you can export the field might be helpful.

Yes, that makes sense. Please file an issue in the issue tracker for 2.1 to add this field to the Add / Edit Individual form.

For adding it to the form, start with CRM/Contact/Form/Edit.php and define the field. You may need to modify CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact::retrieve to grab the value of this column (might do it already?). Then modify or create a custom version of templates/CRM/Contact/Form/Edit.tpl to display your new field.

For viewing the contact, you'll work with templates/CRM/Contact/Page/View/Tabbed.tpl - enable smartyDebug to see if the field value is already available to the template. If not, you'll have to modify the underlying code to retrieve it.

Probably get on IRC if you get stuck. AND review the CiviCRM Architecture thread on the blog before starting w/ this.

I assume u r referring to CiviCRM 2.0

i just checked the queries being generated and we retrieve ALL the contact data from civicrm_contact table, so it should be there. i did a debug for a household entity and did see it

The code that retrieves the default values is in CRM/Contact/BAO/Contact.php

lobo