350 profile fields? How can your users manage such a profile?

No idea on the pulldown list. Will look at it when I get a chance.

Import/export is possible but would need to be funded by someone.

Thanks Kevin.

Will send email regarding import/export.

Hi Kevin, just wondering if you've had a chance to look at this sorting order problem?  It also seems to be ignoring the default value field as well with pull down lists.

The sorting order problem is a bug in core Elgg as described here:

http://trac.elgg.org/ticket/2126

You can fix it yourself by changing this line in engine/lib/metadata.php (function get_entities_from_metadata):

$options['order_by'];

to:

$options['order_by'] = $order_by;

The default value works fine for me. Can you give me a value that does not work for you?

Have made that change and now working fine.  Now that the sort order is correct the default value seems to be working as well (I usually set the first option as '-' in the list so that nothing is selected by default).

Thanks so much Kevin.

Maybe I spoke too soon.

If I edit a profile, choose an item from the pulldown list, select Save, the correct item then shows on the profile page.  If I choose edit profile again, the pulldown field defaults back to the first item on the list rather than the one selected previously.

Text fields, radio buttons, check boxes etc... seem to work ok, just the pulldown lists are doing this.

Any ideas?

Any update on this?  Is anyone else also experiencing this problem?

Cheers.

Any chance of getting this looked at Kevin?

This is a bug in core Elgg, introduced in Elgg 1.7.1. The patch is described here:

http://trac.elgg.org/ticket/2171