Adding fields to tables, was: Re: [freeside] signup.cgi errors

[ivan]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 02:29:31PM -0400, Joe Englert wrote:
> Hi Ivan, 
> 	I'm in the process of adding some bonus fields to the cust_main
> table.  We need the ability to send bills to someone other than the
> contact person.
> 
> 	After adding fields to the table and some more widgets in the
> edit/cust_main.cgi file, the page will display fields I've manually edited
> but will not write out edits made from the page.  After some tracing, it
> looks like the edit/process/cust_main.cgi is looking through all the
> name/value pairs sent to it and relying on FS/FS/cust_main.pm to handle
> the posting.  
> 
> 	How can I add fields to the cust_main object, or otherwise 
> expand the fields associated with a customer?  Are there any pitfalls
> - like files that are relying on the current structure that would
> also need to be changed - that I should be aware of?

To add fields to the cust_main table:

1) add the fields to the database
2) (possibly) add the fields to fs-setup if you want new databases to have
   them.
3) add the fields to FS/FS/cust_main.pm, specifically a data check/untaint 
   in the _check_ subroutine (and reinstall)
4) run bin/dbdef-create to update the database description files
5) modify the .cgi user interface code

HTH.

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_ivan