Make External Identifiers field's addition optional

Created on 19 May 2025, 3 days ago

Problem/Motivation

The External Identifiers field is in the crm_field module.

The field is automatically added to the Contact Type bundles Individual and Organization by the crm module, which requires the crm_field module. Many/most installs of CRM are unlikely to use this field.

Proposed resolution

Move this field to a dedicated module, crm_external_identifiers_field
Move the config that adds the field to Contact bundles from crm to the new module
Remove crm's dependency on the crm_field module
Follow up in 📌 Remove crm_field module Postponed

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

📌 Task

Status

Active

Version

1.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States jdleonard Austin, TX, USA

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Comments & Activities

Issue created by @jdleonard
Comment 3 days ago →
🇺🇸United States bluegeek9
I think this is a duplicate of 📌 External Identifier field Active
Comment 2 days ago →
🇺🇸United States jdleonard Austin, TX, USA
I missed that issue, but looking at it, it's not clear that it's the same as this. It mentions "Create external crm entity" but is lacking detail. I based this issue off of what's in the 1.0.x branch. Feel free to close one issue if you think it makes sense.

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