vtiger

[jspencer]

I am working with vtiger 4.2.4 and would like to add the descrpition field to the contact "detail view page" for activities, emails, and history. Is there a way to do this?

I've been plugging through the code and can't seem to find it easily. The detailview.html calls a {BLOCK3} variable as far as I can tell, but I can't figure out where this "block3" is generated (it seems this is what fills in the contact description, activities, email, history, etc).

For some quick backgroud info, our sales force is using the Accounts area to store limited info for the companies that they are calling. They then create contacts to hold info on each person at those companies they are working with. Each time they call or email or whatever a contact they are creating a new event/task/email and typing notes of the communication in the task/event/email description area.

What I am after is a way to view a contact WITH the destription field of the communication (task, event, email) for that contact at a glance DIRECT from the contact's "detail view" screen. I don't care if a contact that has a long communication history has a detail screen a mile long that has to scroll. The whole idea is that if they're looking for a particular communication the salesman doesn't have to click and open each event/email until they find the one they want. Basically we're trying to duplicate the way it works in Act.

Optional enhancements would be to limited the description to the first xxx characters (possibly with a ... button to expand that particular event to the full description). Or even better, make the description a '+' that says "click here to view the descrpition" so that again they don't have to actually wait for the full event details screen to load.

So, I'm happy plugging into the php and html to do this, but would appreciate some pointers on what functions/files to change and how difficult this would be to impliment. Thanks for the help!

[liture]

I have the same issue but in the Activities section, where I would like to display the Company name but this field is not included in the section wherer personalised vieww are created..Help?

[liture]

Anyone?

[Sal]

Hello,

Variables {block(n)} assigned in files DetailView.php are generated by fonction getDetailBlockInformation(...) located in include/uifromdbutil.php.

This fonction self calls getDetailViewOutputHtml(...), that generates each field for each block. getDetailViewOutputHtml is located in include/utils.php.

[liture]

can you be so kind to attach a code example?