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Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 01, 2012, 03:14:10 pm
I can seem to find a way to allow a user to merge contacts by using the merge tool in the contact summary
I have 'merge duplicate contacts' turned on

I tried the same on the demo site and get the same issue
How do I get the merge button to show up on this page? 
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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 01, 2012, 07:54:59 pm

that warning does not have the merge button.

The  'merge duplicate contacts'  is a permission that allows you to access the merge functionality via search or the admin screens

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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 01, 2012, 11:27:07 pm
Your right 'merge' doesn't show up but it does show up on this message when I am logged in as user 1

So I am not sure what permission is needed to turn it on
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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 02, 2012, 05:31:34 pm

Can you take a screenshot of the message when u r logged in as user 1.

thanx

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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 02, 2012, 06:32:56 pm
Sure
Here you go. 
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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 03, 2012, 06:45:41 pm

Can u try and reproduce this issue on demo (note that the demo user is NOT uid 1)

Also u can add debug statements to the code here:

CRM/Contact/Form/Contact.php, line 1164 or so. From a look at the code note that the merge link is only display when editing an already existing contact

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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 04, 2012, 07:56:44 am
Actually the issue is that in CRM/Contact/Form/Contact.php line 1084 the 3 links are fetched via

Code: [Select]
   $contactLinks = CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact_Utils::formatContactIDSToLinks( $ids, true, true, $contactID );
In CRM/Contact/BAO/Contact/Utils.php line 606 (in formatContactIDSToLinks) we have:

Code: [Select]
        $permissions = array( 'view'  => 'view all contacts',
                              'edit'  => 'edit all contacts',
                              'merge' => 'administer CiviCRM' );

That should clear up the mystery I think.

Seems that last one should be edit all contacts also.

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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 04, 2012, 04:25:37 pm
Hershel - thanks for diagnosing this! Since we have an explicit 'merge duplicate contacts' permission - it makes sense to use that to control whether merge option is included. I've filed and committed fix for 4.2:

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-10318
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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
June 05, 2012, 03:43:19 am
> Hershel - thanks for diagnosing this!

My pleasure. Thanks for the fix and the update.
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Re: Merge link wont show up on 'check for duplicate contacts'
August 29, 2012, 04:46:33 pm
Thanks Again Hershel

I recently updated to 4.1.5 and had to redo this fix again.  Glad this was here to help. 

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