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Hi guys,
I'm trying to customize the standard "edit contact" form.

I created a custom data group called "other comm privacy", which contains checkbox of "Do not SMS","Do not instant message".
And I wanna move these checkboxes beneath the standard "Communication Preferences - Privacy".
I noticed that my custom data group is handle by <custom templates>\CRM\custom\form\customData.tpl, and "Communicaion Preference" is handled by \CRM\contact\Form\CommPrefs.tpl.  And these two are included by \CRM\contact\Form\edit.tpl
So I tried copying some modifed code from customData.tpl to CommPrefs. but it didn't work. I tried the same method when I was customizing "view contact" form, it worked well.

It seems that the array item assigned to tpl are not shared among these tpl file. I noticed that it says {* @var $form Contains the array for the form elements and other form associated information assigned to the template by the controller *} in the smarty template file. I guess there might be something to do with the "controller". But don't really know what "controller" is.

Can anybody help? Thanks a lot.

this will not work, since in the edit form the custom data is loaded via ajax (in the view form it is loaded inline)

i dont have a good workaround for your issue currently that does not involve hacking the code

lobo