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Hello all,

I am having a very odd behavior from my system when either pasting in or hand entering company information in the "Current Employer" field in the individual contact edit view.

The field will accept short entries - less than say, 12 characters.  If I add something longer and save, the field appears empty once the edit screen is reopened.  I can incrementally add characters a little at a time and save, but at some point, I lose the ability to edit the entry.

Even stranger is that it seems like it will indeed take longer entries in some instances, as long as I have not entered that exact same entry one or more times before, so that it is not in the autocomplete dropdown of the browser (IE and FF both).

And of course stranger still is that I can type in something like "ABCD", and it will not take.  But if I go back and change it to "AB", it takes.  If I add one letter and make it "ABC", it takes sometimes, and sometimes not.   ?!?

ALMOST forgot to mention that the field itself does not appear anywhere on the Summary tab of the Contact View.

CiviCRM 2.0.6
Drupal 5.7
MySQL 4.X
PHP 5

Any help will be gratefully received,

-Joe

Thanks Donald!

I didn't install this copy of CiviCRM, and there is some integration w/Drupal for purposes of controlling access to member-only content.  I am concerned that upgrading might upset that apple cart.

Regardless, would you have any suggestions as to the best way to perform an upgrade?

-Joe

I understand.  (=.   There isn't much time for learning how to install/upgrade right now, so I am going to opt for using a custom field and swap functions between it and the "Current Employer" field for now.

On a somewhat related note, do you know where I can find the data field for the "Don't Trade" checkbox?  I don't see it in the database/tables on first blush.  I need to hinge a selection criteria condition off of it in a PHP report.

Thanks again, lobo.

-Joe