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Calling all profile gurus,
I don't include 'County' on my address form for organisations, as all are in the same geographical area. However, this is causing problems with proximity searches were it is mandatory, even though whatever setting you make the same results are returned. Is there a way of removing the field from the UI or of setting a default 'County' in the same way you can for 'Country'?
Anyone had cause to investigate this before and if so anything to report?
Many thanks
Matt

Hi Kurund,
Thanks for the response but I'm not sure I understand, I'm already the option to pass default country which works fine. My problem is that 'County' is also mandatory, even though that field is not included in my dataset and therefore the results are the same whatever I choose from the confusing list of 'County' options.
Many thanks,
Matt

Hi demeritcowboy,
Sorry for delay in responding, been trying to understand it. The proximity search is defined via a profile, but the profile doesn't include county, I don't even include it in my address settings so couldn't use it if I wanted. I get this error message if county isn't filled.

"Country AND State/Province are required to search by distance."

Which is strange as State/Province isn't even an option and country is already set to default. If I put anything in the county field it all works fine (doesn't matter what I put as the information doesn't exist in my database, so can put "aberdeen city" or "wiltshire" and get the same results back). But very confusing for users...

I know it's community contributed code, was just wondering if anyone else had any experience before I start taking apart CRM/Contact/BAO/ProximityQuery.php

Many thanks,
Matt

Do you have State/Province on your profile? It's saying you need that field.

Lobo: thanks for looking at that, I'll let you know if I find the mystery setting.

demeritcowboy: I don't have 'State/Province' or 'County' collected for my contacts, I've unchecked the boxes in 'Global Settings' -> Address Settings (/civicrm/admin/setting/preferences/address&reset=1). So I couldn't enable them for my profiles even if I wanted to, they don't exist in my database. As I say what seems stranger is that it's the 'county' field that appears in the search form but the error is about 'State/Province' and 'Country'.

I've tried it on the test site, having disabled 'State/Province' and 'County'. I don't see the county field but I do see the 'State/Province' field and get the message that "Country AND State/Province are required to search by distance" if I do a search without this field completed.

See the problem on my live site: http://feedingmanchester.org.uk/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=35
See the problem on CIviCRM test site: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=11

This is more predictable behaviour, than the 'County' field problem, I am seeing, but isn't actually factual as certainly from a UK experience proximity searching works perfectly from postcode or city (with the default country field already filled in). Is the solution going to be to introduce a 'State/Province' field into my addressing? Then I can at least start collecting that information so that it works, which is not a major problem for me as we are dealing with a very localised project or only a couple of provinces. But is there a way removing the restriction of having this as a mandatory field, especially as it doesn't relate very well to the UK context (so I imagine most people will have it disabled)?
Many thanks again.
Matt

hey matt:

maybe try implementing a the buildform hook for that form (profile?) and remove the requirement of state for your install. If the geocoder returns a valid geocode in the UK case then we are all fine and thing should work. let us know how it goes and/or ping us on irc if u r stuck

lobo