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View only Birth date field in profile
July 27, 2010, 10:21:42 am
Hi,

I'm using CiviCRM v28600 from SVN.

I have a Birth Date field that is used in a profile so that a user can fill in his/her details.

In some circumstances, I want this field to display 'read-only' on the profile edit form. If I go into the profile settings and untick 'required' and tick 'View Only', then the field does show up as a non-editable field in the profile. However, the 'clear' JavaScript link still appears next to the text field, and clicking on it and then 'Save' does clear the 'Birth date' field for the user's contact record.

Surely the 'clear' link shouldn't be there if the field is configured to be 'View Only'. Right? Shall I report this as a bug, or is there something else that I am missing?

Many thanks,
-Ian

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Re: View only Birth date field in profile
July 27, 2010, 10:38:40 am
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Surely the 'clear' link shouldn't be there if the field is configured to be 'View Only'. Right?
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Shall I report this as a bug
Yes, file an issue at http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel

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Re: View only Birth date field in profile
July 28, 2010, 12:32:34 am
Filed and fixed http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-6550

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Re: View only Birth date field in profile
July 28, 2010, 03:51:46 am
Hi Kurund,

Thanks for that. I've now patched my 3.1 branch install with that change.

Now, there is something else that I would like to do. We would like users to be able to fill in the 'Birth Date' field as part of their user profile, but we don't want people to be able to go back and change their birth date once it has been filled in. We want it to be filled in once, then become read-only.

I've tried using hook_civicrm_buildForm to set the form element to '_flagFrozen = TRUE' if the birth date field has a value already, which seems to make the birth date field read-only on the form, but the 'clear' link still displays and works.

Obviously, what I am doing is a gross hack, so I'm not surprised that it doesn't work right. Is there another, better way of doing this? Has anyone else done something similar?

Thanks,
-Ian

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Re: View only Birth date field in profile
July 28, 2010, 05:28:15 am
I have not check on 3.1, but on 3.2 birthdate is already frozen. No element is displayed.

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