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Hi, I'm new here, with a new installation of civicrm 2.0.2 on Drupal 5.6.

My first Profile is working fine, tied to my Drupal registration. Subsequent Profiles are behaving erratically, particularly the Country field. Under localization I have United States as the default, but others selectable. When I create a profile with Country in it (with only Profile or View/Edit selected on its settings), and I leave the United States field as selected, the profile records no country data, and it is subsequently impossible to enter ANY value in this field in the normal contact edit form. When I enter another country besides United States, the profile records the data.

When I succeed in selecting a state, the profile records the country data! However, when I use a State field, all states all over the world are in the dropdown, rather than only those pertaining to the selected country, and this makes it quite troublesome to select a state. In my localization regarding states, I have the right-hand box blank.

When I change my localization settings to where there is no default value for country, the profile then saves the country data I select for each record. However the state selector is still worldwide.

Any tips would be appreciated. I've seen similar problems in past posts around earlier versions of civicrm without clear resolution.

We've solved this problem pretty well for the "internal" contact editing form by using an Ajax enabled Country + State/Province fieldset. The state/province choices are filtered by the selected Country.

We have not yet implemented this functionality for Profile forms - so there's really no great solution if you need to expose state/province choices from many countries in profile forms - short of adding some custom coding. I suspect this will get addressed by allowing folks to use the Ajax-enabled field pair in profiles at some point..

When do you guys think this ajax hierarchical select functionality will be available in profile forms?

Thanks,
--Leo

When do you guys think this ajax hierarchical select functionality will be available in profile forms?

Thanks,
--Leo

This requirement has come up fairly often in the past 6 months so evidently more folks are using CiviCRM with multi-national constituencies. I've adding this feature to the 2.2 roadmap and we'll target getting it done in that release.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v2.2