Contact without an Account

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Hi
Sugar Open Source Version 4.2.1b
SugarSuite
Contacts Module
MySQL - 4.1.11
Apache 2.0

how do i disable the account name feature in Contacts/EditView such that i can add a new contact who may or may not have an account. I need to be able to add a individual contact without having to previosly add an account for the said person.

[kbrill]

Account name is not a required field, you don't have to put an account name if you do not want to.

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Sorry, my question might not have been clear enough. What i catually meant was, when i enter a new contact AND enter a new account for the contact i am unable to do so. Onclick of save there is an error displayed below the Account name field saying that No match for field: Account Name.[ Please see the screen shot i have attached to this post] I want to enter a new contact that is not previously associated with an Account. Both the contact and the Account should be new to the system. Hope somebody can help me.

[cywolf]

You can't quick-create an Account that way, but I believe if you hit the Select button you can create one from inside the popup window.

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Hi cywolf,
Thnks for the reply. I know i can always use the select button. But the issue i face is such that my company does not want to use the acounts module at all and i have hidden the 'Accounts' tab altogether. So u see there's no way i can create an account so as to select from it.
Is there any way of overriding this feature?

[staibha]

Just as kbrill said, leave the account field blank.

Alternatively you can hide/comment out the account field, by editing the EditView.html, DetailView.html and ListView.html of the contacts module: /modules/Contacts

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Thank you, but no no.i wish it were that simple,I? need the account name field. what i need is to be able to enter the account name right there in the EditView form itself. Lets say that the account does not exist, i need to be able to enter a new account in the Account Name textbox , Which will bw save so that in future i can use the select button.
I know this seems unreasonable but i really this to work. Please help

[kgt]

Why not create and use a custom field for that purpose?

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Thanks kgt,
That was my last option. I was hoping somone could come up with a better alternative. but i guess i will have to use a custom field now.
Thank you guys. I really appreciate the prompt responses.