Add Company to New Contact form

[clctechnology]

On my Home page the New Contact form in the left column has First Name, Last Name, Office Phone and Email, however I need to add Company to those form fields. I tried using Studio, however the form_SideQuickCreate_Contacts code found in the New Contact form, is not part of the Studio Contacts Layout. Could I get some assistance towards what to do to add Company to the New Contact form? I am not a software engineer, I'm a ordinary SugarCRM user. Thanks.

[kuske]

Sugar differs between Contacts/Accounts and Leads.
In Contacts you have only the contact details and a reference to an account.
In Ledas you have contact details and the name of a company.
You cannot add an new contact and a new account at the same time in one custom editview.

BUT you could use the enterBusinessCard panel to enter a contact, an account, an opportunity and some other objects in one step. Did you try it?

[clctechnology]

Thank you for the reply. I just used the Business Card entry form. I would need to add Company to that form (same as my desire for the New Contact form in the side bar) but upon looking in Studio I could not find anything that references Business Card form. Do you know how I could edit the Business Card form fields to add Company and also make it faster and simpler to just enter a few fields so I can accomplish my original goal? Thank you again.

[kuske]

BusinessCard is a hand written html-template with some code behind in sugar\modules\Contacts\BusinessCard.*

Ther is no possibility to change it in studio.

[clctechnology]

I will give it my best shot with my trusty old notepad text editor and see if I can figure out how to get the form field for Company on it. Probably not. I was wondering, do you know if I buy this and don't use the free version if it gets more user friendly, and not so computer engineer oriented? This is a pretty geeky product not really meant for average users like me.

[kuske]

You only have to set the "Create Account" checkbox and change the style of the account div.

Open BusinessCard.php

Find
<input class='checkbox' type='checkbox' name='newaccount' onclick ...
and change it to
<input class='checkbox' type='checkbox' name='newaccount' checked onclick ...

Find
<div id='newaccountdiv' style='display:none'>
and change it to
<div id='newaccountdiv'>

In my version these changes are in line 332.

Thats it, or not?

[southwestcrm]

.... I just used the Business Card entry form. I would need to add Company to that form

Are you sure you need to edit the core files of Sugar?

The Create contact from business card form already has the capability to create an "account" during the creation of the contact.

changing the core php files is only going to be overwritten next time you upgrade.