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 the iHRIS Manage Demo site. On unix you might be working under:
- Base Dir
- /var/lib/iHRIS
and the demo site would be at:
- Site Dir
- /var/lib/iHRIS/3.1/ihris-manages/sites/Demo
If you have installed Windows iHRIS Manage you will be working under the directory:
- Base Dir
- C:\Program Files\ihris-suite
and the Demo site will at:
- Site Dir
- C:\Program Files\ihris-suite\sites\ihris-manage
