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I've just updated a Joomla 2.5.28 site from an older version of CiviCRM (4.4) to the latest 4.7.29. Now I can't edit any of the fields under the "Contact Details" pane for existing records.

There are two errors:

  1. When editing these fields for contacts that have custom subtypes, a popup appears saying "One or more contact subtypes have been de-selected from the list for this contact. Any custom data associated with de-selected subtype will be removed as long as the contact does not have a contact subtype still selected. Click OK to proceed, or Cancel to review your changes before saving."

  2. For all contacts (including custom subtypes from item 1 above), saving doesn't work and throws this error: "Custom Addressee is a required field if Addressee is of type Customized."

It's also interesting that I can create NEW records of contact subtypes, but get the errors again if I try to update the Contact Details of the new record.

I found this post (Why after importing contact records were Addressee field values set to "Customized" for records where Custom Addressee had a null value?) which seems to address issue #1, but I'm a bit stumped as to issue #2. And I didn't want to try the correction suggested in this post until I knew if the two issues could be related.

Site details: Joomla 2.5.28 CiviCRM 4.7.29

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  • Crap. Just noticed I made a mistake in my first post -- the last paragraph should say that the post addresses item #2, and #1 has me stumped :-)
    – minbori
    Jan 24, 2018 at 14:14

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I feel this issue is documented and fixed at CRM-21180. You can try by applying patch or wait for 4.7.30 release.

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  • Thanks for the answer, Pradeep. Yes that seems to address issue #2, but not issue #1?
    – minbori
    Jan 25, 2018 at 13:27
  • I feel it does please try
    – Pradeep Nayak
    Jan 25, 2018 at 13:28
  • Oh ok, will do so.
    – minbori
    Jan 25, 2018 at 13:31
  • I'm not having much success. I'll admit I'm not sure exactly what procedure I need to follow to apply the patch :-/ I've tried updating just the 11 files in the patch, and I've tried updating the whole codebase. Both break my 4.7.29 installation. Are there any guides you could point me to?
    – minbori
    Jan 26, 2018 at 11:53
  • Ooops, I should have searched first, then posted after :-) civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/4622/…
    – minbori
    Jan 26, 2018 at 12:09

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