9.4. Customize the customer self registration

9.4.1. Customizing the web interface

To display the new field for the phone number in the customer.pl web interface the .dtl file which is responsible for the layout in this interface has to be modified. Edit the Kernel/Output/HTML/Standard/CustomerLogin.dtl file and add the new field around line 128.

    [...]
    <tr>
      <td>$Text{"Phonenumber"}: </td>
      <td><input type="text" name="Phone" value="$QData{"UserPhone"}" size="20" maxlength="50"></td>
    </tr>
    [...]

9.4.2. Customer mapping

In the next step the customer mapping has to be expanded with the new entry for the phone number. To ensure that the changes are not lost after an update, put the "CustomerUser" settings from the Kernel/Config/Defaults.pm into the Kernel/Config.pm. Now change the MAP array and add the nie phone number field:

    # CustomerUser
    # (customer user database backend and settings)
    $Self->{CustomerUser} = {
        Name => 'Database Backend',
        Module => 'Kernel::System::CustomerUser::DB',
        Params => {
            # if you want to use an external database, add the
            # required settings
#            DSN => 'DBI:odbc:yourdsn',
#            DSN => 'DBI:mysql:database=customerdb;host=customerdbhost',
#            User => '',
#            Password => '',
            Table => 'customer_user',
        },
        # customer uniq id
        CustomerKey => 'login',
        # customer #
        CustomerID => 'customer_id',
        CustomerValid => 'valid_id',
        CustomerUserListFields => ['first_name', 'last_name', 'email'],
#        CustomerUserListFields => ['login', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'customer_id', 'email'],
        CustomerUserSearchFields => ['login', 'last_name', 'customer_id'],
        CustomerUserSearchPrefix => '',
        CustomerUserSearchSuffix => '*',
        CustomerUserSearchListLimit => 250,
        CustomerUserPostMasterSearchFields => ['email'],
        CustomerUserNameFields => ['salutation', 'first_name', 'last_name'],
        CustomerUserEmailUniqCheck => 1,
#        # show now own tickets in customer panel, CompanyTickets
#        CustomerUserExcludePrimaryCustomerID => 0,
#        # generate auto logins
#        AutoLoginCreation => 0,
#        AutoLoginCreationPrefix => 'auto',
#        # admin can change customer preferences
#        AdminSetPreferences => 1,
#        # just a read only source
#        ReadOnly => 1,
        Map => [
            # note: Login, Email and CustomerID needed!
            # var, frontend, storage, shown (1=always,2=lite), required, storage-type, http-link, readonly
            [ 'UserSalutation', 'Salutation', 'salutation',  1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserFirstname',  'Firstname',  'first_name',  1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserLastname',   'Lastname',   'last_name',   1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserLogin',      'Username',   'login',       1, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserPassword',   'Password',   'pw',          0, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserEmail',      'Email',      'email',       0, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
#            [ 'UserEmail',      'Email', 'email',           1, 1, 'var','$Env{"CGIHandle"}?Action=AgentTicketCompose&ResponseID=1&TicketID=$Data{"TicketID"}&ArticleID=$Data{"ArticleID"}', 0 ],
            [ 'UserCustomerID', 'CustomerID', 'customer_id', 0, 1, 'var', '', 0 ],
#            [ 'UserCustomerIDs', 'CustomerIDs', 'customer_ids', 1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserComment',     'Comment',   'comments',    1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'UserPhone',       'Phone',     'phone',       1, 0, 'var', '', 0 ],
            [ 'ValidID',         'Valid',     'valid_id',    0, 1, 'int', '', 0 ],
        ],
        # default selections
        Selections => {
            UserSalutation => {
                'Mr.' => 'Mr.',
                'Mrs.' => 'Mrs.',
            },
        },
    };

9.4.3. Customize the customer_user table in the OTRS DB

The last step is to add the new phone number column to the customer_user table in the OTRS database. In this column the entries for the phone numbers will be stored.

linux:~# mysql -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 6 to server version: 5.0.18-Debian_7-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> use otrs;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> ALTER TABLE customer_user ADD phone VARCHAR (200);
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 3  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> quit
Bye
linux:~#

All needed settings were done and the new field for the phone should be displaied in the customer.pl panel. New customer users should have to insert their phone number if they register a new account. If your apache is configured to use mod_perl for OTRS, you should restart the web server to activate the changes.