A tick box “same as home/primary address” when submitting Event/Contribution from Admin using paypal pro. way to fix it?

Question

Although selected contact has an address in his profile (But No Billing address). It would be useful to have a tick box saying "same as home/primary address", admin doesn't need to type in all the info again. Can anyone suggest how to do it in a quick way?

Answer 1

What version are you on - I just checked a 4.6.6 site & a contact with a home address (only) is getting the prefill - although if you change processor that form is not prefilling. (there is an open ticket about that )

Answer 2

You can remove the requirement of those fields using hook_civicrm_buildForm() - see CiviCRM hook reference

Here's an example from a couple of years ago, although this was written for user-facing forms:

/**
 * Implements hook_civicrm_buildForm().
 */
function example_civicrm_buildForm($formName, &$form) {
  switch ($formName) {
    case 'CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution_Main':
      $fields_not_required = array(
        'billing_first_name',
        'billing_middle_name',
        'billing_last_name',
        'billing_street_address-5',
        'billing_city-5',
        'billing_state_province_id-5',
        'billing_postal_code-5',
        'billing_country_id-5',
      );
      foreach ($fields_not_required as $field) {
        $form->_paymentFields[$field]['is_required'] = FALSE;
      }
      break;
  }
}