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=Pre-Requisites= | In this tutorial, we will look at adding a new fields to the person form to version 3.1 of iHRIS Manage. We will add two fields, one called "Favorite Color" which will be a drop-down list of values, and one will be "Favorite Animal" which will be a free-text field. There are many ways to skin my favorite animal, a cat. Likewise, there are many ways to add a field to a form. In order to better maintain the code and the customizations we are making, we will do so by creating a sub-module ''My_ManagePerson'' of our site-module which contain the all of our changes. To look at a similar customization, look at [[http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ihris%2Bcssc/ihris-manage/3.1-central/files/head%3A/modules//Person/ CSSC]]'s customizations. | ||
Please read over the following articles | |||
==Pre-Requisites== | |||
Please read over the following articles: | |||
* [[Technical Overview: Module Structure]] | * [[Technical Overview: Module Structure]] | ||
* [[Technical Overview: Configuration (Magic) Data ]] | * [[Technical Overview: Configuration (Magic) Data ]] | ||
==Creating a New Module== |
Revision as of 13:37, 10 March 2009
In this tutorial, we will look at adding a new fields to the person form to version 3.1 of iHRIS Manage. We will add two fields, one called "Favorite Color" which will be a drop-down list of values, and one will be "Favorite Animal" which will be a free-text field. There are many ways to skin my favorite animal, a cat. Likewise, there are many ways to add a field to a form. In order to better maintain the code and the customizations we are making, we will do so by creating a sub-module My_ManagePerson of our site-module which contain the all of our changes. To look at a similar customization, look at [CSSC]'s customizations.
Pre-Requisites
Please read over the following articles: