Reply To: Add Core Fields

@ Robert

RE: On Forms, Add New Contact, is there a way to auto-populate the category?

Only if you edit the PHP file for it. Locate these lines (1846–1860) in the connections_form.php file.

$out = cnTemplatePart::category(
    array(
        'name'       => 'entry_category',
        'style'      => array( 'width' => '100%' ),
        'type'       => 'multiselect',
        'return'     => TRUE,
        'select_all' => '',
        'exclude'    => $metabox['atts']['exclude'],
        'include'    => $metabox['atts']['include'],
        'group'      => $metabox['atts']['group'],
        'child_of'   => $metabox['atts']['child_of'],
        'hide_empty' => $metabox['atts']['hide_empty'],
        'show_count' => $metabox['atts']['show_count'],
    )
);

Change them to:

$out = cnTemplatePart::category(
    array(
        'name'       => 'entry_category',
        'style'      => array( 'width' => '100%' ),
        'type'       => 'multiselect',
        'return'     => TRUE,
        'select_all' => '',
        'exclude'    => $metabox['atts']['exclude'],
        'include'    => $metabox['atts']['include'],
        'group'      => $metabox['atts']['group'],
        'child_of'   => $metabox['atts']['child_of'],
        'hide_empty' => $metabox['atts']['hide_empty'],
        'show_count' => $metabox['atts']['show_count'],
    ),
    'X,Y,Z'
);

Where X,Y,Z is change it to the category IDs (their number) that you want preselected.

RE: is there a hook to change the name/title of Category to some unique to our operation?

You can hook into the cn_pre_insert_term filter. It provides the term name that will be added. YOu will need to return your altered string after your operation.

Hope this helps!