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Contact reference field bug - ok to file?
May 29, 2012, 01:13:54 pm
We are using an autocomplete contact reference field to assign some access to views for our group leaders.  When I start to write a surname in the box it pulls up both current and deleted names making it very difficult to know who to choose if we have a current/deleted record for the same person. 

I have tested this on the demo and the same thing happens - it pulls up deleted people as well as current ones as pre-fill suggestions.  I presume this is a bug. Is it ok to file straight onto Jira... and am I ok to put it as Major as it currently means assigning permissions is an interesting guessing game!

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Re: Contact reference field bug - ok to file?
May 29, 2012, 02:24:28 pm
Agreed. Should not be displaying deleted contacts. You can file an issue. As a work around (and in fact this might be better for your use case) - create a static or smart group of all or a subset of Individuals using Advanced Search. Then select that group in the "Limit List to Group" field in the contact reference custom field settings. I think that should prevent the deleted contacts from showing up.
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Re: Contact reference field bug - ok to file?
May 29, 2012, 05:09:32 pm
The contact_get api should default to only getting is_deleted = 0.

I think it's likely this is fixed in the api (& might need backporting)


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/*
 * Adjust Metadata for Get action
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 * @param array $params array or parameters determined by getfields
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function _civicrm_api3_contact_get_spec(&$params) {
  $params['contact_is_deleted']['api.default'] = 0;
}
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Re: Contact reference field bug - ok to file?
May 30, 2012, 01:15:07 am
Thanks all.

Eileen - I'm afraid I'm not tech competent so can't do the backport you mentioned so will continue to file the bug for now.  Hope that's ok.
Dave - I have just gone through our trash and permanently deleted them all so no more show up in the pre-fill for now.  On a different but related note, is there any plan to make group custom fields searchable at some point?
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Re: Contact reference field bug - ok to file?
May 30, 2012, 03:54:05 pm
Eileen confirmed that this is fixed in the upcoming 4.2 release (and hence we closed the issue).

No plans AFAIK at this time to support searching Group custom fields.
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