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I have a client who needs to be able to have administrators process transactions that users submit to them via paper donation cards.  THey do not collect CCV codes on these paper forms as you really are not supposed to collect a ccv code on paper (the point is that only someone with the card has the ccv code from what i understand about them).

They have set CCV to be an optional field with authorize.net, so if they go to authorize.net they can process transactions directly there without a ccv code. However with civicontribute the CCV code is required both for users and when administrators are attempting to run a transaction.

Is there a way to make CCV code OPTIONAL/NOT REQUIRED when an administrator uses civicontribute to process a credit card transaction?

I just ran into this as well. Here's some code for the buildForm hook that is working for me:

//unset cvv2 rule for backend forms
$config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton();
$frontend = $config->userFrameworkFrontend;
if ( $frontend != 1 ) {
unset($form->_required[7]);
unset($form->_rules['cvv2']);
}
the _required array just controls the insertion of the asterisk for visual clues (as far as I can see). not sure if the array key is fixed or if it could shuffle, so you may need to tweak that. the _rules array is what actually controls the requirement

also -- i'm Joomla user. the only thing that might be different on Drupal is I'm unsure how it handles (or if it handles) the userFrameworkFrontend value, since Drupal has less of a distinction between the two. if you can't isolate "backend" forms, you could still isolate based on the form name, e.g.

if ( $formName == 'CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution' ) {...}