Handling different contact types: Best practices?

[p.konetskiy]

@iparker

So what is the best way to differ between these contact types? Create a custom select-field to choose this type?

Yes. Look at the posts. You can make different forms for different contact types.

Custom View depending field value

@peted I recommend don’t change function ‘preDisplay’. Make function ‘getMetaDataFile’ in file …/view.detail.php /* add */ public function getMetaDataFile() { if ($this->bean->order_type == "Repair" || $this->bean->order_type == "Other" || $this->bean->order_type == "Stock") { $oldType = $this->type; $this->type = $oldType . 'ros'; } $metadataFile = parent::getMetaDataFile(); if ($this->bean->order_type == "Repair" || $this->bea…

Custom View depending field value

@peted Without problems. Add new form to the function ‘display’ to file …/view.detail.php: public function display(){ if ($this->bean->order_type == "Repair" || $this->bean->order_type == "Other" || $this->bean->order_type == "Stock") { $this->dv->formName='DetailView_ros'; } parent::display(); }

@iparker

Is there a possibility to create two different lists to separate these types?

When you make several forms each of them can have different fields.