Bug #56
closed
Addition of a Profile Field Option Removes Existing One
Added by Matt Gold over 15 years ago.
Updated over 15 years ago.
Category name:
BuddyPress (misc)
Description
Last week, we had a request to add the School for Professional Studies to our profile field options. I added it, but what appears to have happened is that the act of adding SPS removed one of our existing options -- CUNY Central (I believe that that was the option most recently added before SPS).
I just went and tried to re-add CUNY Central, but doing that removed SPS.
Any help that you can give me would be appreciated. Profile fields are handled through BuddyPress, and the interface can be found on the dashboard (Dashboard > BuddyPress > Profile Field Setup
One concern I have is that once we get both options fixed, that we edit the database so that we don't wind up with two groupIDs for one school
Thank you for your help with this.
- Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
Matt,
There seems to be a funny little bug in the select box editing interface. I noticed that when there were 24 options in the list, the last one being Option #24: Cuny Central, but when I clicked the "Add Another Option" link, the option number is the same as the last one in the list. So, I clicked "Add Another Option" and I see a field for Option #24 below the already existing Option #24. It turns out that the id of the input field is the same too, so the second value overwrites the first and you can't add one option at a time. This is a Javascript bug that we could easily fix, but I bet it will be fixed in the next version of BP, and as long as you're aware of it, it's not problem.
To work around this problem, I clicked "Add Another Option", entered "Cuny Central" for #24, clicked "Add Another Option" and entered "School for Professional Studies" for #25.
I'm closing this issue.
Lucas
Great catch, Lucas -- thanks so much. Just to clarify: are you sure that people who have already chosen SPS or CUNY Central will be assigned the same college id number in the database?
Matt,
It sounds like CUNY Central started out being option #24, and is still is option #24, so I believe the answer is yes. I haven't confirmed this, however, and probably need to dig into the code a little bit to make sure. Unless you know of any users who signed up who were from CUNY central. We could probably just check their user profiles and find the answer to our question.
Lucas
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