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hey folks,

this seems like it should be easy but i cannot get it to work. i want to set California as the default value for a new individual form.

this is what i have (which does not work). help please...

this is in a drupal module, running d6 & civi3.

if ( $formName == 'CRM_Contact_Form_Contact' ) {

/**     CRM_Core_Error::debug( $formName );
        CRM_Core_Error::debug( $form );
        exit( );
**/
        $defaults['address_1_state_province_id'] = 1004;
        $form->setDefaults( $defaults );

    }

Greetings,

In which file would I add code for this exact issue in CiviCRM 4.0 Alpha 2?

Also would the above code change for the new version?

Thanks,

Dave Geller

Business Analyst
The Innovation Office - Dept. of Technology
City & County of San Francisco

We had this requirement as well & this is the function we used

Note that it didn't work everywhere but it was better than nothing. The customer would have preferred the ability to set a default state was built into CiviCRM core but doesn't funds to put towards that at the moment

function civifuzion_civicrm_buildForm( $formname, $form ){
 // default state = 1018 - set for new contact form (and preferably all backend forms)

  if ($form->_defaultValues['address'][1]['country_id']){
       $defaults['address'][1]['state_province_id'] = 1018;
       $form->setDefaults($defaults);

 }
}