[Tim Carpenter]

Steven,

Hope all is well.

My client requests having the drop down in add entry default to work instead of personal for all applicable fields to speed up data entry.

What is the best way to go about making this change?

I searched but could not find any similar support questions. If this has already been resolved, feel free to link the answer!

Best Regards,

Tim

• This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Tim Carpenter.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tim

Sorry, but there is not really an easy solution to this. You have to edit the PHP files to do this which means you’ll have to make this change when you update Connections. You would have to edit this file changing the order of they arrays to put the work types first.

For example, to change the address type order you would have to change this starting on line 783:

public function getDefaultAddressValues() {
	$defaultAddressValues = array(
		'home'   => __( 'Home' , 'connections' ),
		'work'   => __( 'Work' , 'connections' ),
		'school' => __( 'School' , 'connections' ),
		'other'  => __( 'Other' , 'connections' )
	);

	return $defaultAddressValues;
}

To this:

public function getDefaultAddressValues() {
	$defaultAddressValues = array(
		'work'   => __( 'Work' , 'connections' ),
		'home'   => __( 'Home' , 'connections' ),
		'school' => __( 'School' , 'connections' ),
		'other'  => __( 'Other' , 'connections' )
	);

	return $defaultAddressValues;
}

Hope that helps.

[Tim Carpenter]

Steven,

This is very helpful. I assumed it was going to have to be done in this way, so this is no problem.

Just to confirm this is the only file that needs to be edited?

Thanks again!

Tim

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tim

Yes, I’m pretty certain this is the only file that will need to be edited. My lack of certainty only stems from that fact the code base for Connections is getting too large to commit to memory

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