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Questions about custom fields in CiviCRM.

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Can I customize the contact relationship tab to show custom fields?

Which CiviCRM version are you using? If 4.4, then it looks as though this extension may do what you want: Custom Contact Relationships Tab If you're using a more recent CiviCRM version, it may be wo …
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Why is a custom field not appearing in forms after changing its type from CheckBox to Select?

A custom field was originally created as HTML type CheckBox (with Options Per Line set). This was later changed to type Select, using the Change Input Field Type facility in the Edit Field form. After …
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Why is a custom field not appearing in forms after changing its type from CheckBox to Select?

I found that if a Select field has options_per_line set in civicrm_custom_field, then it fails to render, as described. A workaround is to unset Options Per Line in the UI before changing the field ty …
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How do I use custom fields in Drupal views?

Saw the same issue here. We noticed that the field appeared twice in the list of fields. We'd selected it as CiviCRM Contact: My Field - but it also appeared as CiviCRM Custom: My Field. When we sel …
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Best practice for dealing with electoral district / constituency?

It might be helpful to set out use cases describing what specifically you want to do with the data: this might tip the balance towards one approach or another. One approach would be to create a conta …
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CiviCRM API: How to get event by custom multiselect field option?

I think the feature you need is A 'contains' operation for the api to search multiselect custom values, which is work in progress. See the associated pull request #6612 for discussion of progress - it …
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