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Pre-form help text issue with profile ...
March 27, 2008, 08:41:35 pm
I've created a profile and added some pre-form help text to it.  When I preview my profile the pre-form help text appears, but when I logout of Drupal and view the profile search form page as an anonymous user, the form appears but not the pre-form help text.  How do I get the pre-form help text to show up in the public/anonymous user view?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Pre-form help text issue with profile ...
March 27, 2008, 09:15:30 pm
Additionally what's weird here is that the pre-form help shows up when I use the standalone code in a block in Drupal.  however this won't work since I'm using a search form = the standalone code causes the field titles to appear but not the actual search boxes.  Strange.

So I still would like to figure out why the pre-form help is not showing up if I just go to the profile URL.  for example:

civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=5

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Re: Pre-form help text issue with profile ...
March 27, 2008, 10:30:43 pm

Can you please reproduce this issue with a small profile on our demo server and post back the urls so we can verify the issue and if a bug, fix it :)

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Re: Pre-form help text issue with profile ...
March 28, 2008, 04:57:44 am
Yes, I will do this today and let you know.  Thanks.   :)

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Re: Pre-form help text issue with profile ...
March 28, 2008, 07:32:46 am
Ok, this is not working in the demo as well.  See this URL:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=4

I created a simple profile form and added one line of pre-form help, and the line of pre-form help is not showing up when I do a preview or view it "live."

Is this a CiviCRM bug/glitch?

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Re: Pre-form help text issue with profile ...
March 28, 2008, 09:27:48 am
Ahhh - the preform help shows up on the form when it is used to create or edit a contact record (e.g. http://.../civicrm/profile/create?gid=4&reset=1). It is not displayed in "search and listings mode". We'd probably need two different Pre and Post help settings to support both edit and search - since the text would be different in many / most cases.

For now, your best bet is to implement a custom version of the profile search / listings template following the instructions below - and add your pre-help to that file:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Customize+Built-in+and+Profile+Screens
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