Adding Fields to the Person Form - 3.1

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 Tutorial_ManagePerson of our site-module which contain the all of our changes. To look at a similar customization, look at [CSSC]'s customizations and in particular under modules/Person

Pre-Requisites

Please read over the following articles:

• Technical Overview: Module Structure
• Technical Overview: Configuration (Magic) Data

Creating a Site

We will make our customizations to the iHRIS Manage Demo site. On unix you might be working under:

/var/lib/iHRIS

and the demo site would be at:

/var/lib/iHRIS/3.1/ihris-manages/sites/Demo

If you have installed Windows iHRIS Manage you will be working under the directory:

C:\Program Files\ihris-suite

and the Demo site will at:

C:\Program Files\ihris-suite\sites\ihris-manage