Recording "interests" for Contacts

[dgilroy]

Hi All,

The obvious way for this is to create a series of checkbox custom fields in the Contacts module and then just check the interests they have e.g. golf, theatre etc.

However, I'm wondering if there's a better way as if you do this properly you might have 20+ interests and the sub-panel in the Contacts detail view would take up a lot of space.

Is there another way using a custom module with a many-to-one relationship to Contacts. How would this look in a subpanel of Contacts? Easy to mock up I know, but would value the Community's collective thoughts before I start.

Regs....David.

[crmsiva]

Why don't you try a mulliselect dropdown field for interests?

[dgilroy]

Hiya, yep, that might do it. Although my concern about screen real estate being taken up is still there as when you select multiple values from a multi-select, the Detail view shows all of them and pushes the next row down the screen doesn't it?

Regs....David.

[crmsiva]

yes. you are correct. But if you want, you can alter the behaviour in "include\SugarFields\Fields\Multienum\DetailView.t pl". And you can display it horizontally, instead of vertical display