Phone field in custom entity

[thanassos]

Hi I've created several new entities but I can't add any phone (with the work, home, mobile options...) or email fields in thoses.
Is there any way to add them?

[tanya]

Hello
If you create entity with type Company or Person - these fields are included.
These fields are not available for creation in Entity Manager.
You can do it only manually.
use application/Espo/Modules/Crm/Resources/metadata/entityDefs/Account.json (or Contact.json) as example

[thanassos]

Thank for your answer.
Noob here, I juste need to Duplicate the Account.json and rename it by the name of my entity?

[tanya]

Just copy this

        "emailAddress": {
            "type": "email"
        },
        "phoneNumber": {
            "type": "phone",
            "typeList": ["Office", "Mobile", "Fax", "Other"],
            "defaultType": "Office"
        },

[tanya]

Do not copy all the file, because it contains own relations

[thanassos]

Here? httpdocs/custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/metadata/clientDefs/site.json (My entity is called Site)

Edit : My bad here : httpdocs/custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/metadata/entityDefs/site.json

[tanya]

/custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/metadata/entityDefs/Site.json

[thanassos]

Yay works perfectly thanks

[khopper]

I'm trying to do this with Opportunity, I Inserted the code the json file in the custom folder accordingly but the email field is not working.
I have cleared the backend cache, my local cache and restarted apache just to make sure to no avail. Not sure what I am missing.

"emailAddress": { "type": "email" },

[tanya]

The path of your file? Is json valid? Did you Rebuild EspoCRM in Administration?

[khopper]

I did the rebuild and restarted apache. I also had to remove the email field had originally created before finding this post.

[Kurt]

I'm also trying this and running into a little trouble. I have defined two new fields on my custom entity and manually changed the type in the JSON file:

"leadDeliveryPhone": {
"type": "phone",
"typeList": ["Mobile", "Office", "Home", "Fax", "Other"],
"defaultType": "Mobile",
"required": false
},
"leadDeliveryEmail": {
"type": "email",
"required": false
}

The UI renders the fields properly but when I try to submit an edit nothing gets saved on the back end and there are no errors. No data has been put in entity_phone_number for this entity. Is it perhaps required that I call the fields emailAddress and phoneNumber for this to work correctly?

[Kurt]

It looks like that might have been it -- when I use emailAddress and phoneNumber as the names it works fine. I'll work around this with labels, but it does appear you can only have a single email or phone field on an entity because of this. That won't get in my way but might be worth improving.

[Russ]

Hi, added a phone field, but if I am clicking on it, it does not brings up the espo dialer, it offers me to call through my FaceTime instead, what would be the workaround? Thanks

[lazovic]

If you added a field with the Phone type to a custom entity or some other entity that initially did not have a field with the Phone type when it was created, you will most likely need the following instructions for modifying the EspoCRM code: https://docs.espocrm.com/extensions/...-custom-entity.

[Russ]

Thank you, lazovic