Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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Hi everyone!

We have been using OTRS at my company for quite some time now and are very satisfied with it.

Based on these results we would like to go further and start saving all of our customers' information in OTRS. In order to do this we would like to add text and date fields in the "Add Customer" page. Should this be possible I would appreciate help in order to do it.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

Post by renee »

First, you have to add those fields in the database, so that the values can be stored... Then you have to do the following steps:

If you haven't changed the CustomerUser-Settings in <OTRS_HOME>/Kernel/Config.pm
1) Copy all the code

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$Self->{CustomerUser} = {
        Name   => 'Database Backend',
        Module => 'Kernel::System::CustomerUser::DB',
        Params => {
            Table => 'customer_user',
            # CaseSensitive will control if the SQL statements need LOWER()
            #   function calls to work case insensitively. Setting this to
            #   1 will improve performance dramatically on large databases.
            CaseSensitive => 0,
        },

        # customer uniq id
        CustomerKey => 'login',

        # customer #
        CustomerID             => 'customer_id',
        CustomerValid          => 'valid_id',
        CustomerUserListFields => [ 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email' ],
        CustomerUserSearchFields           => [ 'login', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'customer_id' ],
        CustomerUserSearchPrefix           => '*',
        CustomerUserSearchSuffix           => '*',
        CustomerUserSearchListLimit        => 250,
        CustomerUserPostMasterSearchFields => ['email'],
        CustomerUserNameFields     => [ 'title', 'first_name', 'last_name' ],
        CustomerUserEmailUniqCheck => 1,
        Map => [

            # note: Login, Email and CustomerID needed!
            # var, frontend, storage, shown (1=always,2=lite), required, storage-type, http-link, readonly, http-link-target
            [ 'UserTitle',      'Title',      'title',      1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserFirstname',  'Firstname',  'first_name', 1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserLastname',   'Lastname',   'last_name',  1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserLogin',      'Username',   'login',      1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserPassword',   'Password',   'pw',         0, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserEmail',      'Email',      'email',      1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCustomerID', 'CustomerID', 'customer_id', 0, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserPhone',        'Phone',       'phone',        1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserFax',          'Fax',         'fax',          1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserMobile',       'Mobile',      'mobile',       1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserStreet',       'Street',      'street',       1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserZip',          'Zip',         'zip',          1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCity',         'City',        'city',         1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCountry',      'Country',     'country',      1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserComment',      'Comment',     'comments',     1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'ValidID',          'Valid',       'valid_id',     0, 1, 'int', '', 0 ],
        ],

        # default selections
        Selections => {
        },
    };
into <OTRS_HOME>/Kernel/Config.pm

2) Edit the map to include the new fields, e.g.

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        Map => [

            # note: Login, Email and CustomerID needed!
            # var, frontend, storage, shown (1=always,2=lite), required, storage-type, http-link, readonly, http-link-target
            [ 'UserTitle',      'Title',      'title',      1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserFirstname',  'Firstname',  'first_name', 1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserLastname',   'Lastname',   'last_name',  1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserLogin',      'Username',   'login',      1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserPassword',   'Password',   'pw',         0, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserEmail',      'Email',      'email',      1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCustomerID', 'CustomerID', 'customer_id', 0, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserPhone',        'Phone',       'phone',        1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserFax',          'Fax',         'fax',          1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserMobile',       'Mobile',      'mobile',       1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserStreet',       'Street',      'street',       1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserZip',          'Zip',         'zip',          1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCity',         'City',        'city',         1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCountry',      'Country',     'country',      1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],

            [ 'UserColumn1', 'New Column', 'column_name_in_table', 1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ], # This is a new column

            [ 'UserComment',      'Comment',     'comments',     1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'ValidID',          'Valid',       'valid_id',     0, 1, 'int', '', 0 ],
        ],
The order in the map represents the order in the form!


If you have already changed CustomerUser-settings in the Config.pm, you have to do only step 2 (change the map).
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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much appreciated!
:)
thank you!
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

Post by RBehr »

This has been hugely helpful.

One question: I want a field to contain a URL. Using the Map I can create a static URL (whenever the field is clicked it goes to the same URL), however I want it to point to the URL of the field value, so if the field contains www.google.co.uk, clicking it takes the user to www.google.co.uk. How can this be achieved? With a CI, simply entering a URL into a varchar fields makes that field into a URL. I want the same for a customer with custom mapped fields.

Thanks
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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You can use http-link. viewtopic.php?f=60&t=7787
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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Excellent. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Crythias!
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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Thanks. Have managed to do it now.
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Is this still the actual procedure?
I am on OTRS 4.0.4
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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Hi everybody,
here's the question once again: is this still the current procedure (we're on 6.0.27)? There is an option now to add dynamic fields for customers and customer users but I haven't found a sysconfig setting to make them appear in the respective forms.
Thanks a lot in advance,
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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heeg2au wrote: 31 Mar 2020, 08:19 Hi everybody,
here's the question once again: is this still the current procedure (we're on 6.0.27)? There is an option now to add dynamic fields for customers and customer users but I haven't found a sysconfig setting to make them appear in the respective forms.
Thanks a lot in advance,
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

Post by skullz »

After add the field via dynamic field, you still need to define them in Config.pm (CustomerUser mapping) .

https://blog.otrs.com/2017/10/25/otrs-6 ... omer-user/
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Re: Custom Field on "Add Customer" page

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skullz wrote: 31 Mar 2020, 11:36 After add the field via dynamic field, you still need to define them in Config.pm (CustomerUser mapping) .

https://blog.otrs.com/2017/10/25/otrs-6 ... omer-user/
Thanks for the fast reply, skullz. I'll give that a try in the next couple of days and will post the result here :)
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