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At this link to add an Event Registration via the backend
http://sandbox.joomla.civicrm.org/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/participant/add&reset=1&action=add&context=standalone

a dropdown is showing that allows user to type part of the name of a contact or add a contact - see 'capture1'.

On my site - using beta7 on Joomla 3.3.3 - the dropdown is missing the three options for adding a new contact.  See 'capture2'

The prinicipal difference here is Joomla 2.5 v Joomla 3?  I have noticed other unusual behaviour and will add additional posts.

I am. I did. And they're not there.

This is sandbox on Joomla 2.5:

<ul id="select2-results-7" class="select2-results" role="listbox">

    <li class="select2-no-results">

        Start typing a name or email... or

        <br></br>
        <a class="crm-add-entity crm-hover-button" href="/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/create&reset=1&context=dialog&gid=4"> … </a>
        <a class="crm-add-entity crm-hover-button" href="/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/create&reset=1&context=dialog&gid=5"> … </a>
        <a class="crm-add-entity crm-hover-button" href="/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/create&reset=1&context=dialog&gid=6"> … </a>
    </li>

</ul>
This is my site on Joomla 3.3:

<ul id="select2-results-7" class="select2-results" role="listbox">

    <li class="select2-no-results">

        Start typing a name or email... or

        <br></br>
    </li>
If I do a regular 'view source' on the sandbox site, the code looks like this:

<input class="crm-form-entityref required" placeholder="- select contact -" data-select-params="[]" data-api-params="{&quot;extra&quot;:[&quot;email&quot;]}" data-api-entity="contact" data-create-links="true" name="contact_id" type="text" id="contact_id" />
But on my site it is:

<input class="crm-form-entityref required" placeholder="- select contact -" data-select-params="[]" data-api-params="" data-api-entity="contact" data-create-links="true" name="contact_id" type="text" id="contact_id" />
The JSON parameters seem lost?

Perhaps a problem in the Renderer....?  Bit beyond my intelligence at this point...

Incidentally, this behaviour occurs anywhere the Contact search widget is used, not just Event Registration.  eg also 'New Contribution'

> CRM.profileCreate
< []
So an empty array

The dynamic/l10n script only contains this

// Contact create links
  if (CRM.profileCreate !== false) {
    CRM.profileCreate = [];
  }

I appear to have them, and they look the same as the ones in the sandbox (although IDs are different).  Do they need to be 4, 5 and 6?

I found the cause, without resorting to debugging, once you showed me the way!

In getCreateLinks() in line 3277 of UFGroup.php, it prepares an array to look up on the database with the values:
array('new_individual', 'new_organization', 'new_household')
The values in my database are in camel case, eg New_Individual

If I change the values in the database, and flush the cache, the drop-down immediately works.

So... the question is, which literal values are correct?  I suspect that my values come from my original Civi install many moons ago.  May be they are 'correct'?  What do you think?   [I note that ucfirst() is used later in the code to convert 'new_'].