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I have created a profile to allow users to search a group (member directory). A few questions/issues:

1) When identifying a profile field as "public user pages and listings" we are told that when the user looks at a listing view, the field will be hyperlinked so they can search matching data on that field. But I observe that hyperlink is only present on custom data fields -- not on built in fields. I've recreated this issue on the demo: http://demo.civicrm.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/view&reset=1&id=265&gid=3
Some of the built-in fields would be very useful to have this feature on (e.g. city, state).

2) I was getting an error on the link (can't access this resource) that's generated for one of my custom fields. The problem was with CRM/Core/BAO/UFGroup.php, line 832, "civicrm/profilel" -- it looks like that's a typo, and should just be "civicrm/profile". When I remove the trailing "l" it works. What's weird is that I wasn't getting the error on the demo, though I've confirmed that it's present in the current 1.9 release. I'm just worried that I might be breaking something by changing that.

thanks,
Brian

Brian - That was definitely a typo (line 832 in UFGroup.php) - and it's been fixed in the repository for 1.9 - which is why it's working on the demo. That fix will be included in the next 1.9 distribution.

As far as "hyperlinks" on profile field values - the correct behavior is that any profile field with Visibility = "Public User Pages and Listings" is supposed to be rendered with the hyperlink which searches for contacts with matching data (within the constraints of that profile). This functionality apparently got broken for some (all?) of the built-in fields. I know that a fix that fixes this at least for City and Country was posted to the Kabissa branch of 1.9 recently. I'll try to get some more info on this in case folks want to port it. The feature will definitely be fixed "officially" in 2.0.

Todd -  if you do NOT want the hyperlinks - set the field visibility to "Public User Pages" or "User and User Admin Only" instead. ("User/Admin" visibility should hide the field from anyone viewing the profile UNLESS they are logged in AND have "administer CiviCRM" permission OR they are viewing their own contact record.)

Try customizing the page/profile templates:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Customize+Built-in+and+Profile+Screens