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(I searched this forum and Google before asking this, so I'm sorry if it is elementary

I would like to make State a required field in signup profiles but get an issue with country's that don't have a state (eg American Samoa), message returned is:

Please correct the following errors in the form fields below:
State is a required field.

Is there a way to have state required and pass validation for country's that don't have one?

would another option be to add a 'not applicable' option to the various state tables?

Hi,
I just ran into this issue myself. We're putting on an event in Singapore, which has no states defined, so that the State/Province popup menu in the billing block is empty. But the CiviEvent registration form complains that there's no state selection if one tries to proceed. The fix that I found, which seems to work, is to edit the file

civicrm/CRM/Core/Payment/Form.php

and change the 'is_required' field of the state/province menu from true to false. So this field is no longer required, and it appears that credit cards will still verify if this field is left blank but all the other forms are correct.

This seems to fix the immediate problem. If anyone knows of some hidden bad side effect, say something (and if I discover one, I'll post a follow-up here).

Robert