How do I customise Create Leads Address field in Comm Ed 5.0.0d?

[jaxlovelock]

Hello y'all!

Really getting into Sugar now - lots of fun, customising my "Create Leads" form and nearly there, just one thing I can't figure out: cutomising the Primary Address field.

I'm using: Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 with Sugar Community Edition Version 5.0.0d (Build 3235) on Firefox Version 2.0.0.16 and I'm in the good old UK.

I go into Studio, Leads, Layouts, Editview (I've already customised fields in Leads, Fields and Edit Dropdowns ... all except the Address Field)

I want to customise the Address field, but after much exploring in the Editing Fields and Layout bits, I notice that you literally just drag and drop Primary Address Street, and that actually contains the Primary Address Street / City / State / Postal Code / Country fields, ie, they're not separate.

I would like my Primary Address Street to give the following fields:
Street
Locality
City
County
Post Code
Country

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated because I then need to import my leads data from a CSV file as I need to create a campaign quite urgently ... won't that be nice!

Thank you lovelies!

[andopes]

Hi, jaxlovelock

There are some field templates into include/SugarFields/Fields folder.

Inside this folder there is the Address folder, which define how should the field address be rendered in the DetailView (DetailView.tpl) and EditView (EditView.tpl).

You can duplicate this folder with a new name and modify only the necessary to make it works accordingly to your needs.

Cheers

[jaxlovelock]

Thanks Andre

I don't think I've understood you properly - sorry! Can't find the Sugarfields/Fields Folder you mention - would appreciate step by step instructions on how to find it!

Thank you.

[jaxlovelock]

Ha! Now I think I've discovered why I'm getting so few responses...

Having passed what I believed to be a 'simple' problem over to my Tech Man, it appears that customising the address field is incredibly complicated and time consuming, and is a problem that crops up elsewhere on Sugar Forums - mainly that Sugar hasn't internationalised their product for some reason.

This is more than frustrating! I now have to go through thousands of leads and change individual details so that I can import them into Sugar, and even then they won't be in the correct address format for the UK - Sugar was meant to be a quicker, more efficient means of CRM than the clunckie Excel document records, hmmmmm.

If anyone can tell me any different or knows what the real situation is here I'd love to know ...

[andopes]

Hi, jaxlovelock

After duplicating the Address folder (e.g. NewAddress) you can modify the content of the files DetailView.tpl and EditView.tpl to make the field layout like you want.
After that you edit the custom/modules/Leads/metadata/editviewdefs.php and detailviewdefs.php and modify the attribute

           'type' => 'address', 
  

to

           'type' => 'newAddress', 
  

In the primary_address_street and alt_address_street.

Cheers