adding support for a default province/state?

Marking as duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/217512

Unduplicatifying

I think I saw an other issue on default states, cities, etc, but I cant remember which one, I'll tag this for now.

Would like to see this handled. I understand how to get the field to be hidden (copying from the 'country' case):

_{location.module}

        case 'province':
          // Force default.
          if ($a4 == 4) {
            return array(
              '#type' => 'value',
              '#value' => $obj,
            );
          }
          else {
            drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', 'location') .'/location_autocomplete.js');
            $country = $a5['country'] ? $a5['country'] : variable_get('location_default_country', 'us');
            return array(
              '#type' => 'textfield',
              '#title' => t('State/Province'),
              '#autocomplete_path' => 'location/autocomplete/'. $country,
              '#default_value' => $obj,
              '#size' => 64,
              '#maxlength' => 64,
              '#description' => NULL,
              // Used by province autocompletion js.
              '#attributes' => array('class' => 'location_auto_province'),
              '#required' => ($a4 == 2),
            );
          }

but I'm missing how to get the default value to be entered. If someone will guide me in this, I can post a patch.

Well, it turns out my difficulty was caused not by my ignorance, but by a bug in how default value settings are handled. Here's the patch to implement the Force Default setting for the Province field.

Marking this as a bug, since currently Force Default doesn't act any differently than Allow or Require regarding the default value.

mrtoner, thanks for your many patches!

Patch needs to be rerolled against the latest release. Please set this back to needs review when a new patch is posted. Or set it back to active if the problem can be confirmed in the new release. If no one is interested in this, we will close it in a couple weeks. If interest picks up again, just set the status back to active and post information about your use case.

We're done with new features in the 6.x-3.x/7.x-3.x branches. When we get a cleaned up fields implementation in 7.x-5.x, we may look into supporting something like this.

@dww

Whoa. I didn't realize anyone was attached to this issue since it'd been dormant for 18 months. To explain myself, this module has a pretty unwieldy issue queue with a bunch of out-of-date tickets. While this particular ticket is not as dated as some of the other open tickets, my present goal is to make the queue more managable (and thus more inviting to other developers that might be interested in co-maintaining this module), which is why I've been trying to close as many issues as possible (particularly the ones that look like they won't see any follow up).

I hope I didn't offend you by closing your ticket and hope you stick around to help. I don't mind leaving this ticket open for a resolution if someone is committed to it. By the way, you wouldn't be interested in submitting a patch for this ticket, would you?

With the commit for #364287: State / Province drop down and Full State name in address field, a fix for this ticket won't be as straight forward as it would've been previously. If we want to add the configurability of a default state/province value, we'll need the form for doing so to be consistent with the input for state/province values when entering a state/province value on a location field.

Currently, if the state/province field is configured as an autocomplete, the autocomplete only pulls from the list of state/provinces of the country selected in the country input. Similarly, if the state/province field is configured as a select, the select changes via AJAX to only offer the list of provinces/countries in the country chosen on the select input for the country.

We'll probably want the interface for configuring a default state/province to look the same when configuring the location field. If the user wants it to be a select, we use the Form API AJAX features to change the input for the default state/province value into a select, with state/province options only available from the default country that has been chosen. If the user wants it to be an autocomplete field, we again use AJAX to change the input for the default value to an autocomplete, with the autocomplete options pulling from the list of state/provinces in the country entered as the default for the field.