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I have been troubleshooting an issue where users cannot see the fields of a civi profile, even though I checked "View/Edit Drupal User Account" and verified that all Drupal permissions are correct.

I searched the documentation, the civi forums and Google for quite awhile, and ended up walking through the code with a debugger. I discovered that profiles with "mixed" fields will not be displayed on user account pages. Specifically, starting at line 1449 of UFGroup.php that says

// skip mix profiles in user Registration / User Account

  if (($moduleName == 'User Registration' || $moduleName == 'User Account') &&
        CRM_Core_BAO_UFField::checkProfileType($dao->id)
      ) {
        continue;
      }

1. Could anyone explain why this limitation was put in place?  The ability to see "mixed" fields would be extremely helpful, and the comment doesn't provide any reason why this decision was made.

2. Could anyone point me to where I should have found this documented online? It's surprising that I would be the only one who has run into this issue, but I didn't see any mention of it anywhere.

3. Is there another approach I can take in order to display mixed fields?

Thanks for any help!

Thanks for your response!

Sorry for not being more clear. I thought "mixed field types" was a civi term, since it's in the code comments. My understanding is that a "field type" in this context is a field from a certain civi function, like memberships or events. So a profile with "mixed field types" includes fields from more than one civi function.

Here it the specific issue: I have created a civi profile that has "View/Edit Drupal User Account" checked. It has the following fields:
Email (Contact)
First Name (Individual)
Last Name (Individual)
Street Address (Contact)
City (Contact)
State (Contact)
Postal Code (Contact)
Phone (Contact)
Membership Type (Membership)
Membership Status (Membership)

These profile fields do not appear in the user's View/Edit Drupal account screens. However, if I remove the membership fields, the profile fields appear when a user views their account info. 

I understand that people may have more than one membership. But how is a user supposed to see their membership information (regardless of how many memberships they have) if it isn't displayed in their account profile?

I'm happy to create patches or add documentation, but I don't feel like I undersand what's going on quite yet.  Thanks for helping me understand further.

Julia

a few thoughts and comments:

1. I think memberships are exposed in the contact dashboard. You can also use views to display memberships (though the views integration is also looking for a maintainer)

2. For profiles to support "mixed types", will require some development work. I dont think its a trivial project (neither is it super hard), but i do think its a 40+ hour project (at the very least). If you would like to start working on this, ping us on IRC and we can help get u started

3. It is an acknowledged limitation in the profile model right now. Hopefully over a period of time this gets resolved and fixed by contributions and patches

lobo