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dflorence

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How to make address and postcode mandatory
May 10, 2013, 02:58:01 pm
When we add a new contact, we want to make it compulsory to fill in at least one type of address (presumably the "main" address)

I can't quite see how to go about making address fields compulsory - Can anyone advise the best way to go about this please?

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Re: How to make address and postcode mandatory
May 10, 2013, 03:45:19 pm
How are you creating new contact? Are you using profile or main contact create form?

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Re: How to make address and postcode mandatory
May 12, 2013, 05:56:45 am
We are using the main create contact form - staff select "new Individual" or "New Contact" from the Contacts list - And its a Jooma site - not drupal...

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Re: How to make address and postcode mandatory
May 13, 2013, 10:16:40 am
I think you've found a part of CiviCRM with some missing functionality: out of the box, there is no way to configure core fields in the standard forms via the UI - you can't disable them, move them around, or make them required, etc.

A couple of work arounds for the time being:

* You could create a profile and use that for creating new individuals / organisations and make the fields required in the profile
* You could use a hook to enforce this (would require some coding) in the create new contact forms.

Longer term (depending on your budget / interest in getting involved) you could help out fixing it the proper way :)
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