Autocompletion of existing contacts broken for many display fields

Problem/Motivation

For many display fields, autocompletion of existing contacts is broken. This includes Current Employer, Email, City, District/County, State/Province, Country, Postal Code, and Phone. If any of these are part of the selected display fields, the autocompletion throws an error.

The exact rules when an error is thrown seem to depend on whether the user is anonymous or not and whether only display fields as stated above are selected:

anonymous user: always getting an error

non-anonymous user & only selecting fields stated above: getting an error

non-anonymous user & also selecting fields not stated above: not getting an error

Detailed steps to reproduce

Create a new webform, then:

Add existing contact

Go to CiviCRM

Check Enable CiviCRM Processing

Number of Contacts: 1

Under 1. Contact 1 → Contact Fields Make sure that Existing Contact is checked

Click Save Settings

Display city for existing contact

Go to Build

Edit Existing Contact

Set Form display → Form Widget to Autocomplete

At Form display → Contact Display Field(s) select Display Name and City

Click Save

Make form available

Go to Settings

Set URL path settings → Webform URL alias, e.g., to /test

Click Save

Fill form and notice error

As anonymous user, navigate to the form (e.g., at /test)

Start typing into field Existing Contact

Notice HTTP 500 in browser console

In Drupal's error log, the following error of type php can be found:

CRM_Core_Exception: Invalid field 'address.city' in Civi\Api4\Query\Api4SelectQuery->getField() (line 400 of /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4SelectQuery.php).

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4Query.php(168): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4SelectQuery->getField() #1 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4Query.php(246): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4Query->getExpression() #2 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4Query.php(215): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4Query->composeClause() #3 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4Query.php(201): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4Query->treeWalkClauses() #4 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4SelectQuery.php(230): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4Query->treeWalkClauses() #5 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4Query.php(80): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4SelectQuery->buildWhereClause() #6 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4Query.php(90): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4Query->getSql() #7 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Query/Api4SelectQuery.php(106): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4Query->getResults() #8 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Generic/DAOGetAction.php(107): Civi\Api4\Query\Api4SelectQuery->run() #9 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Generic/DAOGetAction.php(94): Civi\Api4\Generic\DAOGetAction->getObjects() #10 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Provider/ActionObjectProvider.php(70): Civi\Api4\Generic\DAOGetAction->_run() #11 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/API/Kernel.php(156): Civi\Api4\Provider\ActionObjectProvider->invoke() #12 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/Civi/Api4/Generic/AbstractAction.php(256): Civi\API\Kernel->runRequest() #13 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/api/api.php(91): Civi\Api4\Generic\AbstractAction->execute() #14 /var/www/[HOST]/web/modules/contrib/webform_civicrm/src/Utils.php(634): civicrm_api4() #15 /var/www/[HOST]/web/modules/contrib/webform_civicrm/src/ContactComponent.php(154): Drupal\webform_civicrm\Utils->wf_civicrm_api4() #16 /var/www/[HOST]/web/modules/contrib/webform_civicrm/src/WebformAjax.php(85): Drupal\webform_civicrm\ContactComponent->wf_crm_contact_search() #17 /var/www/[HOST]/web/modules/contrib/webform_civicrm/src/Controller/AjaxController.php(53): Drupal\webform_civicrm\WebformAjax->contactAjax() #18 [internal function]: Drupal\webform_civicrm\Controller\AjaxController->handle() #19 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber.php(123): call_user_func_array() #20 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/Renderer.php(638): Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() #21 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber.php(124): Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->executeInRenderContext() #22 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber.php(97): Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->wrapControllerExecutionInRenderContext() #23 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/symfony/http-kernel/HttpKernel.php(181): Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() #24 /var/www/[HOST]/vendor/symfony/http-kernel/HttpKernel.php(76): Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handleRaw() #25 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/Session.php(53): Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handle() #26 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/KernelPreHandle.php(48): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session->handle() #27 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/ContentLength.php(28): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle->handle() #28 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/modules/big_pipe/src/StackMiddleware/ContentLength.php(32): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() #29 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/modules/page_cache/src/StackMiddleware/PageCache.php(191): Drupal\big_pipe\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() #30 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/modules/page_cache/src/StackMiddleware/PageCache.php(128): Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->fetch() #31 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/modules/page_cache/src/StackMiddleware/PageCache.php(82): Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->lookup() #32 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/ReverseProxyMiddleware.php(48): Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->handle() #33 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/NegotiationMiddleware.php(51): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware->handle() #34 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/AjaxPageState.php(36): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware->handle() #35 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/StackMiddleware/StackedHttpKernel.php(51): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\AjaxPageState->handle() #36 /var/www/[HOST]/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DrupalKernel.php(741): Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\StackedHttpKernel->handle() #37 /var/www/[HOST]/web/index.php(19): Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel->handle() #38 {main}

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Issue created by @fkohrt
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fkohrt
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🇮🇳India jitendrapurohit
Sounds like a permission issue, does anonymous have access to see all contacts? If no and still you want to display all contacts in the `Existing Contact` field, perhaps try disabling `Enforce Permissions` checkbox on `Existing Contact` element.
Comment 3 months ago →
fkohrt
Thanks for replying!

Allowing CiviCRM: view all contacts for anonymous users didn't have any effect for me at all in this regard.

Unchecking Enforce Permissions indeed resolves the issue if one also selects fields not stated above. This still feels like a bug because according to an ACL I set up, some contacts should be viewable by everyone even with permissions enforced (and searching for them indeed works if none of the fields stated above are selected). So why should selecting some additional fields make the difference?

Also, if I only select display fields stated above (e.g., only City), unchecking Enforce Permissions still doesn't make it work, not even for administrators.

So, I'm really unsure as to whether everything works as designed – but maybe I just haven't figured out why it works this way.