[Gary Wagoner]

I’ll echo what I’ve seen throughout the forums… great plugin and great support.

I’ve just read 16 pages of posts regarding the Family type. I just want to make sure I didn’t pass over a solution. I’ve seen things all around this asked but couldn’t find a specific solution.

Is there no way to show a Smith Family card with phone numbers and birthdays for father John, mother Jane, son Bobby, and daughter Suzie? I’m trying to avoid multiple clicks. My preference would be to display these individual pieces of information right on the family card. I see how this could get unwieldy if you displayed all the information for each member but just showing these few items I think can still look clean.

Thanks in advance. I’ve just started using the plugin so open to any ideas and suggestions.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Gary

Right, there is not a solution available that specifically fills your needs. Others have modified a function in the template to output the details they’ve needed. So this is why you have not seen any specific solutions. Mostly these users have created their own custom function based on the $entry->getFamilyBlock(); to output more details than just the name and link. So this is what you’ll have to do too. I also provide customization services if you are interested.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Gary]

Hey Steven,
Thanks for your (what always appears to be a very quick) response. I just wanted to add, the thread from several months back between you and William Emmons was invaluable to my solution. Sometimes it pays to read the forums. I don’t know PHP, but I have been hacking at code from various languages long enough to piece together what both of you were trying to achieve. Posting your function in reply #385115 is something you don’t find very often and was exactly what I needed. After I figured that piece out and how to call it, I was home free. I think it would make for a good FAQ Topic (or enhancement) since it seemed several people were looking for similar functionality.

Anyway, for testing, I just modified the GetFamilyMembers function as well as the call in card.php. Obviously not the appropriate thing to do so now I need to dig out your suggestion for how to not lose your code for updates which I stumbled across somewhere along the way.

Again, great support and great plugin. Keep up the good work and thanks for the help. Heading off to make a review now. :-)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Gary

Here’s the link to the Custom template override files tutorial. Likely the easiest thing to do would be to replay the $entry->getFamilyBlock(); function call in the template file with the entire altered code. Hope that make sense!

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