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Adding fields to (or moving fields into) contact's Communication Preferences
May 07, 2014, 09:27:15 am
I'm quite new to Civi development, and I'm currently developing an extension to add "do not contact until" options, following demand from within the organisation. For example, a contact might say that they have nothing they can do for us right now, but we can call them back in 6 months. When the 6 months is up, their 'Do not phone' preference will be automatically disabled by a scheduled job.

I have created a set of custom fields with dates for each 'Do not' option. Following this post I have used jQuery in Contact.extra.tpl to move them into the 'Communication Preferences' section on the civicrm/contact/add form.

The corresponding changes to the civicrm/contact/view form appear more complicated. Creating a CommunicationPreferences.extra.tpl appears to have no effect, CommunicationPreferences.tpl being included directly from Summary.tpl. Then there is the change between the inline page part and the inline form part when someone clicks 'Edit communication preferences'.

How do I make my custom fields appear in the existing 'Communication Preferences' on civicrm/contact/view? Or am I approaching this completely wrong?
Do Not Contact Until extension: https://civicrm.org/extensions/do-not-contact-until
Organisation Name De-duplicator extension: https://civicrm.org/extensions/organisation-name-de-duplicator

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Re: Adding fields to (or moving fields into) contact's Communication Preferences
May 07, 2014, 11:23:43 pm
You probably need to add them to a Summary.extra.tpl? And for the click inline edit you probably need CRM/Contact/Inline/CommunicationPreferences.tpl
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