Is it possible to do geocoding in cronjob only?

Question

I'd want to only do the geocoding in batch mode, because otherwise, it's too slow for my use case (petition signatures with dozen of signatures per second).

Is there a way to use the geocoding via the cronjob but disable it from the api call (contact.create)?

Answer 1

I suspect you can pass skip_geocode to the params of 'fixAddress' a number of ways (such as injecting it with tpl override or javascript).

Check CRM/Core/BAO/Address.php line 381-382.

// check if geocode should be skipped (can be forced with an optional parameter through the api)
$skip_geocode = (isset($params['skip_geocode']) && $params['skip_geocode']) ? TRUE : FALSE;

Leave geocoding enabled so the cron process completes it, but it is skipped when accessing via web.