Autopopulate custom field.

[enrikm]

Good morning all,

I have tried to study how the ASSIGNED_USER_NAME variable automatically populates the Assigned User Name field upon creating a new record. However, this seems to be a tall order and I have yet to duplicate this.

Say I have created a new field in the users module called branch and I have a custom field in my Project module called branch. What I want to do is to automatically fill up this field with the branch of the user who created it.

Is there a simpler way to do this than imitatng the implementation of the ASSIGNED_USER_NAME variable?

Thanks

[enrikm]

Any insights on this one?

[eggsurplus]

 global $current_user;
//if new record
if(empty($focus->id)) { 
$xtpl->assign("BRANCH",$current_user->branch_c); //where branch_c is a custom user field
} 
  

This probably doesn't do it but may give you some ideas.

[enrikm]

Ey thanks for this. Will try to explore it.