[Vtigercrm-developers] Adding a second "user" field?

[nilay khatri]

Hi Alan,

I too have asked about this earlier.

There are many issues if you add another user field. Basically reports,
filters, list view start having issues due to it.

Since the customer was in a bit of hurry we ended up agreeing to use a
picklist with name of all users and groups. We added an event such that
when a user is deleted or added it automatically updates the picklist.


On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Customer wants to add a field so they can record a secondary staff member
> as having a relationship/responsibility towards an Organisation.
>
>
> I know this has cropped up before but wondering if anyone got a tested and
> working solution (i.e. Reports still work).
>
> The ways I can think of doing this are:
>
> * Simply add a normal, manually created picklist field (no dynamic updates
> of available users etc... A bit of a "last-resort" solution IMHO)
>
> * UIType 53? Standard Assigned To field - I recall having more then one of
> these in a module used to break things badly, especially Reports.
>
> * UItype 52? - The Modified By/Created By field. Not sure how it performs
> if displaytype is set to normal. Again concerns with Reports.
>
> * Add a UIType 10 field pointing at the Users module? Might work, but
> would probably crash Reporting engine as totally unexpected.
>
> * Create a custom UIType field and all the associated code?
>
> Anyone used any of these and/or other ideas?
>
> TIA
>
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