Add Id to account title

[jlabuelo]

Hi all

I would like to know if it is possible to add a field vaule to the title in the Account Edit or Account Detail View.

I mean for example, when you select a record in the Account List View, and then you go to the Account Detail View, you can see that the title is "Account:"+ account_name (see picture attached).

What I would like to get is adding the value of a field called "Account_VAT" to the title so it is easier to identify the record; something like

Account:+account_name+-+account_vat

Is this possible to get?

Thanks a lot

[robertbmirth]

Yes, this is possible, at least for detail view. You'll need to copy your detailviewdefs.php from modules/accounts/metadata to custom/modules/accounts/metadata (if it is not already in that folder). Once you do that, find the field that looks like:

 array (
            'name' => 'name',
            'comment' => 'Name of the Company',
            'label' => 'LBL_NAME',
          ), 
  

and add the line

 'customCode' => '{$fields.name.value}  {$fields.yourVariable.value} ', 
  

where yourVariable is the name of your variable (note that if this is a custom variable you may have to append an '_c' at the end of the variable name). If it doesn't update automatically (the metadata is usually cached), turn developer mode on (admin->system settings), and then once you get what you need, turn it back off as it takes up more processing.

I don't know if this is possible in edit view without a lot of work as its somewhat nonstandard (in any html form, not just sugar) to have one input field for two different variables.

[jlabuelo]

Hi Robert

Will give it a try, and also will keep searching to see if this is possible in the EditView as it is where really I need it.

Thanks a lot for the help!!

[AlexAv]

Also you can do the same.

 
'customCode' => '{$fields.yourVariable.value} <input type="text" name='"name" value="{$fields.name.value}">,