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I'd like to change which fields are displayed for view and edit modes for:
- Contact
- Member
- Contribution

Please advise on where to start - which files to begin with.

Many thanks in advance!

Many thanks Joe.  Are you saying you can use profiles in the View/Edit of CiviContibute and CiviMember?  The reason I ask is that David Greenberg indicated in a forum post you could not.
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5515.msg24203.html#msg24203

Also, from:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Custom+Data+and+Existing+Fields

"Custom data groups show up in a separate tab or inline, so you will not be able to put your custom field near the lastname field without hacking the template (tpl) file."

So how do I find out which .tpl file I need to customize for member and contribute?

Thanks.

Thanks Xavier.

I'm struggling with the templates to include just a single custom data field (or even group of fields) into the midst of pre-defined fields.

What I'm trying to do is include a custom data group called "NAFY Demographics" in the Demographics sections of the Individuals form.   This custom data group is defined as being used for "Individual".

I tried to achieve this by creating a custom template for CRM/Contact/Form/Edit.tpl, and added this to it:

...
<div id="id_demographics">
 <fieldset><legend>{$demographics.hide}{ts}Demographics{/ts}</legend>

{* insert specific inline custom data field *}
<div id="customData10"></div>
{include file="CRM/common/customDataField.tpl"}
{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
alert('here too');
cj(document).ready(function() {
var contact_type = {/literal}"{$contact_type}"{literal};
buildCustomDataField( contact_type, '5', '10');
});
</script>
{/literal}

    <div class="form-item">
        <span class="labels">
        {$form.gender_id.label}
...

My assumption was that arguments to the javascript function buildCustomDataField could pull a single custom group field, as in '5' was the id of the custom group, and '10' was the id of the field, but buildCustomDataField doesn't seem to work like that.  Is there another way to include a specific custom data field, or even a specific custom data group, into the template?  If there isn't a way using core code (ajax calls) to pull it out, is there an API call that can be made?

Thanks for any tips!

~nat

In 2.2 we moved the custom data stuff to be ajax driven and hence dynamically loaded. Also on processing the form, you need to ensure that those form items are added to QuickForm. In 2.3 i suspect we'll add more "ajax" driven hooks to allow form elements to be injected dynamically etc (similar to AHAH hooks in drupal, or so i think

For now, i would do the following:

1. implement the buildForm hook and add the custom data fields you need added

2. customize the tpl to display these new fields

3. implement the postProcess hook to store the custom data fields.

if all the fields you want injected are part of a custom group, you can potentially reuse a lot of the core CiviCRM code

lobo