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fise

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Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 03:16:09 am
Hello, another question from civic begginer.

In adminsiter civic > custom data I would like to build custom data field with radio input field type. There I need to put in "label" an overwiev which a few lines of information text (more than 500 signs) but civic lets me put less than 400 signs. Where do I can change it? In Database field length I've put bigger amount than 255, but still I can't put longer text.

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Mateusz

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Re: Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 03:40:52 am
Mateusz :

Any reason for using Field Label instead of Field Post Help/Field Pre Help for information text?
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Re: Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 05:29:19 am
Well, Yes. This text is a description for each point to choose, and for some reason it has to be detailed. See attachemnt how I wantef to do it. Mayby theres is a better option?

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Re: Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 05:54:49 am

In general i would strongly recommend against a radio custom field with 500 options. Might be better to group the buttons and split it as 50 custom fields with 10 radio buttons each

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fise

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Re: Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 06:05:42 am
Thanks for hints but,

I'm not quite sure if I understand You.

I want to:

Custom field x

description 1 (radio)
description 2 (radio)
decription 3 (radio)
....
description 13 (radio).

If I understand You recomend

Custom field x

description 1 (radio)

Custom field x1

description 2 (radio)

???

Mateusz

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Re: Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 06:34:02 am
Mateusz :
One solution could be to expose "description" field in UI while entering the option values for the custom field (to store the extra information that you have) on this form : http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/custom/group/field/option?reset=1&action=update&id=281&fid=1&gid=1 ,
and while displaying show a combination of label and description. You might wanna use custom templates to achieve this.
For more information, refer : http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Customize+Built-in,+Profile,+Contribution+and+Event+Registration+Screens

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Re: Customizing custom data fields
August 13, 2009, 06:37:09 am
Hmmm, many thanx, I'll take a look, thanx once again for quick help!
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