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We tried using js to force the field to be 'work' but the outcome was that 2 is entered in the contact records as their home website - anyone able to help on this - i think the website filed is unusable in Profiles as is.

Hi,

I've been reported as well that this is confusing to have the "home/..." select. Would be good not to display it and fix it on the admin, especially if you can't have two url fields.

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In real life, 99% will leave the default. It shouldn't be the job of the user to select if it's twitter or FB or whatever, civi should be able to set the type automatically based on the url.

Anyway, as you can't have more than one website, this select field is of no use whatsoever in a profile IMO.

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Hi Pete, I've been trying to deal with this too and have discovered a workaround that might work in your case as well.

I'm trying to build a member directory for a client and many contacts have multiple Website URLs (work, personal, twitter, etc.). I too ran into the bug that causes Civi Profile-based directories and Drupal Views-based directories to display duplicate rows if there are multiple Website URLs in the Civi contact record. So, how to work around this?

First, for the Profile edit form (where users update their records) you can hide the drop-down selector using CSS, so that way users can only enter/edit *1* website URL (and it will be the "main" website by default).

Then, for each additional type of URL you want to include, just create a custom field. Once that's done, add the custom field(s) to your Profiles and/or Views. Because they are unique fields, there is no more duplication of contact rows.

Hope that helps!

Just to add a small two cents to the topic -

1. I believe the selector is invaluable functionality - and e.g. for entering a website for an individual, having the option to put the individuals' primary online home, whether blog, facebook or whatever is necessary.
2. The multiple-entry option would indeed be useful.
3. Another desired functionality would be to be able to add custom sub-fields to the selector, to add other website options, e.g. blog, linked in etc.

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