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Hi there,

while html form snipptes in civcrm under joomla1.15 produced forms with an "edit"-task that were not submitted, civicrm 3.2.3 now produces something like the following:

<form  action="http://url.tld/index.php?option=com_civicrm&amp;task=civicrm/profile/create&amp;gid=1&amp;reset=1&amp;" method="post" name="Edit" id="Edit" >
<div><input name="postURL" type="hidden" value="" />
<input name="cancelURL" type="hidden" value="http://url.tld/index.php?option=com_civicrm&amp;task=civicrm/profile&amp;reset=1&amp;gid=1" />
<input name="contact_sub_type_hidden" type="hidden" value="xxx" />
<input name="_qf_default" type="hidden" value="Edit:cancel" />
</div>

where no matter what the settings in the underlying custom profile are, a "create" task is always being issued which leads to create a new account instead of edit the users profile, letting him add or edit his data. If you now change "create" into "edit" data is being edited but the existing values are not being shown to the user on editing in frontend, so that he can't see what to edit and what to add.

My question here: how should the above "action" and "input" look like so that existing profile values can be seen while editing?

if you  send the following link e.g.: http://url.tkd/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&gid=1
everything works well. The funny thing here is that the correspondung menu link produced by using civicrm menu command edit page looks like this:
index.php?option=com_civicrm&view=Profiles&layout=edit
and doesn' work eather - on our production server the output is always a listing according to "view" instead, no matter what type of page you define.

Is it a bug or would it be a more feature request getting the choice to define which type of action is beeing created with the html form snippets?

But the most importent question for me would be again: How should the above "action" and "input" look like so that existing profile values can be seen while editing?

Any help very much apreciated!

Thanks in advance,
digitracer

does this then mean, that if Joomla does not translate the civicrm menu links properly and there is no way allowing frontend edititng via html snippets that the only remaining way to do frontend editing is issuing a direct link via href?

digitracer