Author Topic: Grouping Custom Data Groups (Read 1309 times)

andrewbelcher · June 19, 2009, 02:52:49 am

Hi,

I'm trying to put an application form into the Custom Data... It is unfortunately a 7 page application form with a number of different sections within the form. What I'd like to achieve is having one tab (called 'Application Form') and within that having a number of inline data groups so I can have the different sections of the form collapsible.

Is that possible? I know my way around PHP so if it's possible only with a hack, can someone point me towards how to do that?

I suppose the ideal is having some kind of 'parent' system for custom data

Thanks!

Andrew

petednz · June 19, 2009, 04:06:20 am

Can you create a session and simple use the url option in Profile Adv Settings so that when they complete one profile they get redirected to the next = and so on.

ALternatively you might want to help fund the proposal to get WebForm passing data in to civicrm if you are using Drupal

andrewbelcher · June 19, 2009, 04:19:11 am

Actually, I'm meaning from the civiCRM Contacts page (when you view a contact). Normally Custom Data is either an additional tab or displayed as a collapsible fieldset in the Summary page. What I would like to achieve is a new Tab with collapsible fieldsets in it.

Dave Greenberg · June 19, 2009, 03:43:44 pm

A single form w/ that many fields sounds less than desirable from a usability point of view - BUT if that's the requirement ...

There is a hook which you can use to add "your own" tabs to the contact view. I think this might be the best approach.

Sample code using this hook (from civicrm/drupal/civitest.module.sample in your downloaded codebase):

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function civitest_civicrm_tabs( &$tabs, $contactID ) {

    // unset the contribition tab
    unset( $tabs[1] );
    
    // lets rename the contribution tab with a differnt name and put it last
    // this is just a demo, in the real world, you would create a url which would
    // return an html snippet etc
    $url = CRM_Utils_System::url( 'civicrm/contact/view/contribution',
                                  "reset=1&snippet=1&force=1&cid=$contactID" );
    $tabs[] = array( 'id'    => 'mySupercoolTab',
                     'url'   => $url,
                     'title' => 'Contribution Tab Renamed',
                     'weight' => 300 );
}

Probably best to get on IRC if you go down this road and get stuck.

andrewbelcher · June 30, 2009, 06:14:04 am

Hi,

I'm a little confused with the hooks. I finally managed to get one working by putting the function straight into admin.civicrm.php. I then tried to include a file which contained only that function, and that didn't work. Am I missing something? The file got included, but absolutely nothing was run...

Andrew

Dave Greenberg · June 30, 2009, 10:58:17 am

There's a bit of info on hooks in Joomla in this issue: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4528

You might try and catch Brian (lcdweb) on IRC as I think he's got some hooks running in Joomla now.

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