#92 [1.0.0] Show Contact \"Description\" in View Account

[Ignatius Reilly]

I propose that on the ViewAccount page the Description field be displayed in the Contacts table.

Rationale:
I assume that the most useful way to use the Description field is to indicate a non-OFBIZ role such as "main", "secondary", "backup", "wife", "technical", "admin", etc.
It will be useful to have this information displayed for a sales rep that is looking for a role contact amongts a list od contacts

[Ignatius Reilly]

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To prevent display problems for implementations where this field stores a lot of information (MySQL TEXT field, 65535...) we could show the field's first 15 characters

[Si Chen]

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Scott, I think this is a good idea. What do you think?

[Scott Gray]

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As usual nothing is straightforward, the listContacts form is used in other places and can't be displayed in those places because description is a clob ie. the lookupContact screen brings up the list of contacts using a Select Distinct query which can't select clobs.

Any advice?
I could create a new form that extends listContacts and add the description to that?

[Leon Torres]

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Yeah this is one of the downfalls of the form widget. Attempting to make it reusable breaks flexibility.

We can delay this task until such a point when we convert the widgets wholesale over to opentaps form macros, or you could try the form extension thing. Once we have macros, it'll be far easier to create a nicer list of contacts or whatever.