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:
Creating a Site
We will make our customizations to a copy of the iHRIS Manage Demo site located at ihris-manage/sites/Demo. For example, on unix you might do
cd ihris-manages/sites cp -R Demo Tutorial
