[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #3698: Required Profile Fields in BP 1.5+ no longer give an option for a null value in the drop down, but become pre filled with the first option.

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#3698: Required Profile Fields in BP 1.5+ no longer give an option for a null
value in the drop down, but become pre filled with the first option.
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 Reporter:  rossagrant   |      Owner:  Ross Grant
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Core         |    Version:  1.5
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  needs-patch
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 Required profile field behaviour has changed in BP 1.5

 When a user is selecting an option from the drop down menu on a
 registration page the required fields are pre filled with the first option
 in the dropdown.

 This means that incorrect data can be saved if a person overlooks a field
 and it also hinders other plugins that use this core functionality, such
 as BP Profile Search.

 There used to be an option above each list of potential answers that
 showed as ---------

 Thus there was a null option.

 I have created this screencast to explain this a little easier:

 http://screenr.com/Fjrs

 Boone suggested this solution but I am not a coder:

 I would be happy to see a patch for BP that allows
 bp_get_the_profile_field_options() to take an argument along the lines of
 show_null_value_for_required (maybe not that wordy, but you get the idea).
 That way, we could default to false (1.5 behavior) but allow the 1.2.x
 behavior optionally, at http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk
 /bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-template.php?annotate=blame&rev=5230#L431.

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