CiviMail tokens for users that have no CMS account

[EdP]

I'm trying to email CiviCRM contacts who may or may not have CMS (Joomla, in my case) accounts with a link to click on which will lead them to a profile edit screen (to update their details and offer them to get a Joomla account).

The CiviMail URL to include is, I think this, including a checksum token:

http://www.DOMAIN.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=N&id={contact.contact_id}&{contact.checksum}

I've set N to the number of a profile I already use for people to update their details, and on receipt the tokens have been (apparently) filled in by the system so that looks fine, and that address gets them to the website and to civicrm. There they are then told by a little civi info message that "No fields in this Profile have been configured to display as a result column in the search results table. Ask the site administrator to check the Profile setup".

If I start enabling searching and search results I just start getting a search result list of our membership/contacts, which I absolutely do not want exposed in this way.

So:
(1) What settings have to be in place on the profile (and Joomla) for a checksum to lead someone to a normal profile page to edit (with CMS join up, captcha and all the usual stuff); and
(2) is it possible to do this without exposing everyone else's data. I can't see that it needs to be a search as the checksum token should be sufficient information and authorisation...

[Donald Lobo]

1. can they save the form and then it goes to the search listing?

2. if so, can u set the profile redirect (in advanced settings) to some other url

lobo

[Dave Greenberg]

I think the problem may be in the formatting of your URL / link:

http://www.DOMAIN.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=N&id={contact.contact_id}&{contact.checksum}

Note that there are TWO question marks. Replace the ? after '/edit' with an & and see if that works.

[EdP]

David
That's the answer. Thanks.

[mikeney]

Thanks for the correction, Dave.  This syntax error should be fixed on the current version of documentation for Mail-merge Tokens for Contact Data

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/Mail-merge+Tokens+for+Contact+Data

It currently displays:

For Joomla! users this would be |http://www.example.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=N&id={contact.contact_id}&{contact.checksum}