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Moving a Custom Field to a Different Data Group
August 12, 2009, 01:19:09 pm
Good news: I actually now understand what the "custom data group" concept is and how it can be useful.

 :(Bad news: Now I want to move some existing custom fields into some new groups that I've created. I want to move those fields with their data.

Is it possible to move an existing field to a different data group?

Thanks,

Shai Gluskin
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Re: Moving a Custom Field to a Different Data Group
August 12, 2009, 01:59:10 pm
Quote from: Shai on August 12, 2009, 01:19:09 pm
Is it possible to move an existing field to a different data group?

It is possible to do so, but there is no code that does it currently. Would be a great contribution and i suspect a few people could use it :)

I'd probably start this off as a standalone script. If you are a coder, you can contact us on IRC and we can get you going. If not, you might want to consider sponsoring someone to do the needed work. I suspect it will be a 20 project or so ...

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Re: Moving a Custom Field to a Different Data Group
August 12, 2009, 02:12:10 pm
Thanks for the response Lobo.

I'm a very slow coder and need to pick my projects carefully; this won't be it.

What do you mean by a "20" project.

I'd likely be a co-sponsor if there are others interested.

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Shai
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Re: Moving a Custom Field to a Different Data Group
August 12, 2009, 02:40:39 pm

i meant i suspect it will take 20 hours or so to implement a first version of this

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Re: Moving a Custom Field to a Different Data Group
August 01, 2012, 06:00:54 pm
Just updating that this happened around 4.1
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Re: Moving a Custom Field to a Different Data Group
March 16, 2013, 11:10:14 am
In case anyone else found this post trying to figure out how to do this click the more option and select move while looking at the fields in a specific group.
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