How can I change the Contact Title?

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Can I use a logic_hooks before opening a Contact page to build the Contact Title depending of the data? Or I need to change the core file (even if it’s not recommended)?

The title is build with: Salutation Firstname Lastname

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But depending of a checkbox, I need to see an other field as the title.

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No idea, any suggestions?

3

Hello , please refer this

We can override the labels in custom folder.

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By the way, I found in ContactFormBase.php at line 175, I changed it; but no change in the UI

ln 175

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If possible, I want to change in the custom folder; but if not possible, where is it in the real code?

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Hi Harshad,

Thanks for your response, but do you know where/what is the field for the Contact dynamically create when we open a contact? This is field that I need to change or customize it.

Thanks.

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I have tried at my end to display the contact title as first name followed by last name. Can you please try this

  1. Create a custom detail view file at custom/modules/Contacts/views/view.detail.php with the following code in it
<?php
require_once('modules/Contacts/views/view.detail.php');
class CustomContactsViewDetail extends ContactsViewDetail{
	protected function _getModuleTitleParams($browserTitle = false)
    {
		$last=$this->bean->last_name;
		$first=$this->bean->first_name;
		$salutation=$this->bean->salutation;
		$customTitle=$first." ".$last;
		return Array(1 => $customTitle);
	}
}
  1. Quick Repair & Rebuild from the admin and test by reloading the page.

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Hi Harshad,

Very thank you, it’s exactly what I need!! Where is it in the documentation? I never found that.

I need to adjust at 2 other places; do you know what function I need to change?

In the left menu
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And in a the linked field

Thanks again!!

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If you want to use simple formatting using the fields like first_name(f), last_name(l) , title(t), salutation(s) then you can specify in user interface by navigating

admin → system → locale

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Yes, I know this easy formatting, but I can’t use it because I need to use custom fields to build the Contact’s name.

It’s why I need to know where I can modify it in the custom folder.

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Hi slypower
At the top you wrote:

As that name format can be achieved in User profile settings that Harshad showed above - I guess you need something different?
Can you share examples of what you want the title to look like? I’m wondering if it is a middle-name you need to include, or perhaps a suffix to show the contact’s education status? Or something quite different?

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Hi DJuser,

Harshad found the solution of my original issue. I’ll create another post for my others questions. (How to change the relate field values to use a custom field)

Thanks a lot!