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Hi there,

I'm making some of the contact fields required and am very pround about the fact that I am using a hook to do this :-) following the hook validate example.  Here is my code:
function vawext_civicrm_validate( $formName, &$fields, &$files, &$form ) {
$errors = array( );
    if ( $formName == 'CRM_Contact_Form_Edit' ) {
       $streetAddress = CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'location_1_address_street_address', $fields );
       if ( ! $streetAddress ) {
          $errors['location_1_address_street_address'] = ts( 'Street address is a required field' );
       }
    }
    return empty( $errors ) ? true : $errors;
}

A couple of questions...

1) I'm not sure how to reference address fields in the contact form.  As you can see I want "location_1_address_street_address" to be validated, but this isn't the correct way to reference it - what is?

2) (feel free to tell me that i am being OTT but) Can I add a nice red * to show the user that the field is required in these cases?  Can I do that using hook_civicrm_buildForm?

Many thanks,
Michael

Hi there - ok - simpler than i thought the only info I'm missing now is the correct way to reference the ['location'][1]['address']['street_address'] field in the $errors array so that I can send a properly formatted error message.  I thought $errors['location'][1]['address']['street_address'] was a good guess but it didn't work.

Cheers again,
Michael