Custom fields in Addressbook - some description?

[el_es]

Hi,
Is it described somewhere (preferably freely available… but if not, I’d like to know that too)
how to do certain things in the Custom Fields in the Addressbook ?

e.g. a button that clears /only/ the custom fields
and a button that preloads them using values from somewhere else in the entry (e.g. Note,
or other possibility (e.g pre-configured fields in Custom area that won’t show in
addressbook Index ?))

THis would make for a quite interesting feature: to have addressbook entries
selected/sorted by one of the fields in Custom area, (some Custom fields are selectboxes)
and by one click of mouse they would be clearable so they won’t show in that
view, or restored, so they will…

Hope this description is good enough

Lukasz

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[el_es]

Hi, Is it described somewhere (preferably freely available… but if
not, I’d like to know that too) how to do certain things in the
Custom Fields in the Addressbook ?

e.g. a button that clears /only/ the custom fields and a button that
preloads them using values from somewhere else in the entry (e.g.
Note, or other possibility (e.g pre-configured fields in Custom area
that won’t show in addressbook Index ?))

THis would make for a quite interesting feature: to have addressbook
entries selected/sorted by one of the fields in Custom area, (some
Custom fields are selectboxes) and by one click of mouse they would
be clearable so they won’t show in that view, or restored, so they
will…

Hope this description is good enough

In case it isn’t: imagine a set of ‘room/booth placeholders’ in addressbook
with special internal addressing scheme in the ‘custom’ fields such that
you can have current (named) users of the booths addressed by the scheme also;

(think ‘booths’ as a place in a convention centre, for example - the row/col info
is short-lived enough and may change also layout of booths may change between conventions)

So, you have custom ‘row’ and ‘col’ fields which are text-input, and ‘isle’ which
is a select-box; allowed values for this select box include ‘=’ meaning empty, cleared.

Now you can in the addressbook entries for each person, assign them to row and col, and isle,
then you can select the ‘tier/level’ in the addressbook index header and sort by col or row;

If a given booth is empty you can now /quickly/ (if you made a link between person entry
and the placeholder) reinstate the placeholder visible on the index (when selected by isle),
and same quick way you can ‘hide’ the person entry from isle view.

Quick, if you can at least have the ‘clear all custom fields’ button embedded there.

Placeholders would make use of another set of custom fields e.g. pre-col, pre-row, pre-isle,
and a dedicated button would copy pre-col to col, pre-row to row, pre-isle to isle;
(person entries would have pre-* fields blank, placeholders would have them preloaded from csv import
where it is simpler to do using a spreadsheet instead of one by one…)

Hope this description makes sense…

Lukasz
HTH,
Lukasz

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[Ralf_Becker_Stylite]

You can use type button and add some javascript as label=onclick.

Have a look in the code of customfield_widget class in etemplate.

Ralf

Hi, Is it described somewhere (preferably freely available… but if
not, I’d like to know that too) how to do certain things in the
Custom Fields in the Addressbook ?

e.g. a button that clears /only/ the custom fields and a button that
preloads them using values from somewhere else in the entry (e.g.
Note, or other possibility (e.g pre-configured fields in Custom area
that won’t show in addressbook Index ?))

THis would make for a quite interesting feature: to have addressbook
entries selected/sorted by one of the fields in Custom area, (some
Custom fields are selectboxes) and by one click of mouse they would
be clearable so they won’t show in that view, or restored, so they
will…

Hope this description is good enough

In case it isn’t: imagine a set of ‘room/booth placeholders’ in addressbook
with special internal addressing scheme in the ‘custom’ fields such that
you can have current (named) users of the booths addressed by the scheme also;

(think ‘booths’ as a place in a convention centre, for example - the row/col info
is short-lived enough and may change also layout of booths may change between conventions)

So, you have custom ‘row’ and ‘col’ fields which are text-input, and ‘isle’ which
is a select-box; allowed values for this select box include ‘=’ meaning empty, cleared.

Now you can in the addressbook entries for each person, assign them to row and col, and isle,
then you can select the ‘tier/level’ in the addressbook index header and sort by col or row;

If a given booth is empty you can now /quickly/ (if you made a link between person entry
and the placeholder) reinstate the placeholder visible on the index (when selected by isle),
and same quick way you can ‘hide’ the person entry from isle view.

Quick, if you can at least have the ‘clear all custom fields’ button embedded there.

Placeholders would make use of another set of custom fields e.g. pre-col, pre-row, pre-isle,
and a dedicated button would copy pre-col to col, pre-row to row, pre-isle to isle;
(person entries would have pre-* fields blank, placeholders would have them preloaded from csv import
where it is simpler to do using a spreadsheet instead of one by one…)

Hope this description makes sense…

Lukasz
HTH,
Lukasz

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[el_es]

Hi,
thanks for the pointer, this may be my weekend project

L.

You can use type button and add some javascript as label=onclick.

Have a look in the code of customfield_widget class in etemplate.

Ralf

Hi, Is it described somewhere (preferably freely available… but if
not, I’d like to know that too) how to do certain things in the
Custom Fields in the Addressbook ?

e.g. a button that clears /only/ the custom fields and a button that
preloads them using values from somewhere else in the entry (e.g.
Note, or other possibility (e.g pre-configured fields in Custom area
that won’t show in addressbook Index ?))

THis would make for a quite interesting feature: to have addressbook
entries selected/sorted by one of the fields in Custom area, (some
Custom fields are selectboxes) and by one click of mouse they would
be clearable so they won’t show in that view, or restored, so they
will…

Hope this description is good enough

In case it isn’t: imagine a set of ‘room/booth placeholders’ in addressbook
with special internal addressing scheme in the ‘custom’ fields such that
you can have current (named) users of the booths addressed by the scheme also;

(think ‘booths’ as a place in a convention centre, for example - the row/col info
is short-lived enough and may change also layout of booths may change between conventions)

So, you have custom ‘row’ and ‘col’ fields which are text-input, and ‘isle’ which
is a select-box; allowed values for this select box include ‘=’ meaning empty, cleared.

Now you can in the addressbook entries for each person, assign them to row and col, and isle,
then you can select the ‘tier/level’ in the addressbook index header and sort by col or row;

If a given booth is empty you can now /quickly/ (if you made a link between person entry
and the placeholder) reinstate the placeholder visible on the index (when selected by isle),
and same quick way you can ‘hide’ the person entry from isle view.

Quick, if you can at least have the ‘clear all custom fields’ button embedded there.

Placeholders would make use of another set of custom fields e.g. pre-col, pre-row, pre-isle,
and a dedicated button would copy pre-col to col, pre-row to row, pre-isle to isle;
(person entries would have pre-* fields blank, placeholders would have them preloaded from csv import
where it is simpler to do using a spreadsheet instead of one by one…)

Hope this description makes sense…

Lukasz
HTH,
Lukasz

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[el_es]

Hi,
I’ve had a look.

And achieved what I wanted

A little paper cut:

in source view the element is shown as
<input type="button"
name=“exec[#CDUClearCustomClear Booth Data]” <<<< name is made up from Label and Name ?
value="Clear Port Data"
id=“exec[#CDUClearCustomClear Booth Data]” <<<< same here
onclick=“document.getElementById(‘exec[#CDUBooth]’).value=’’;” />

(tabularized for clarity)

I am talking about Name and Label columns as displayed on the Custom Fields edit form…

the ‘onclick’ code has indeed been directly copied from the Options (entered as Clear Booth Data=document.getElementById and so on)
Not sure whether this was intended ? but it seems to work anyway.

L.

Hi, thanks for the pointer, this may be my weekend project

L.

You can use type button and add some javascript as label=onclick.

Have a look in the code of customfield_widget class in etemplate.

Ralf

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