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This is not an issue in my BP 1.0 setup.

Are you sure that you hit the “Save changes” button to write the changes to the database? When editing a profile field, a user must save their changes. If they do not, then whatever value was recently stored in the DB is displayed–in this case the default radio button selection.

Rebootnow-

Since I had only one radio button field, which was located in my first field group, I did the following:

• I added a new radio button field to my second field group and tested. No issue.
• Then, thinking it could be an issue if two or more radio button field sets were in the same field group, I added a second radio button field set to the same group. No issue between all three radio button field sets.
• Then I created a new field group and added a fourth radio button field set. No issue. Each change I made showed up and remained properly set, whether just changing a single radio button field, or changing all four radio button fields.
• Finally, thinking maybe this could be an issue only within the first field group, I added a second radio button field to the first field group. I now had 5 radio button field sets. No issue. All five worked as expected. No issues within filed groups or between field groups.
• Since the first radio button field set in the first field group was set to “Required”, I reset it to “Not Required” to see if that would make a difference. No issue.
• I then set both radio button field sets in the first field group to “Required”. No issue.

So, I have tried numerous combinations and cannot recreate your problem.

A few questions:

1. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, try disabling .
2. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? If customized themes, try switching to the default BP themes.
3. Are there any errors in your server’s log files?

I’m refreshing this thread because I’m experiencing this same problem in my blog but I’ve not found a solution anywhere else in the forum. I believe I’ve tracked the problem to its source in bp-xprofile-templatetags.php but need a little help to resolve it.

To recreate this issue, I have a 5-value radio-button sequence with the default-value being the 3rd value in the sequence and the assigned value being the 1st in the sequence. As a result, during the for-loop in the ‘radio’ switch case, TWO values are marked as being “checked” but (since it’s presented as radio-buttons) only the last in the sequence is reported as the activated button.

The problem occurs because the if-statement that decides which field is “checked” is a series of ORs — this is correct for a checkbox field-type that can have multiple values. but for radio field-type, it should be either the set-value OR the default-value but not both.

I’m still just a little too new with the code-base to be confident of what should be the correct fix but, having described the problem, I’m sure @jeffsayre or another BP-expert can propose a straight-forward correction.

In case my description this doesn’t make sense, below is the $html string that is generated from the bp_get_the_profile_field_options() call on a radio-button field type:

uuuughhh… I converted all of the “<" to be "["

I think the following properly displays the output from bp_get_the_profile_field_options() as an example of when radio-buttons intermittently display incorrectly. Below that I also show a potential fix – although @jeffsayre or another BP-expert may have a better solution. (Thanks @hnla for explanation)


<div id="field_125"><label><input checked="checked" type="radio" name="field_125" id="option_126" value="Professional">
Professional</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="field_125" id="option_127" value="Organizational">Organizational</label>
<label><input checked="checked" type="radio" name="field_125" id="option_128" value="Standard">Standard</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="field_125" id="option_129" value="Volunteer">Volunteer</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="field_125" id="option_130" value="Student">Student</label></div>


Notice that there are TWO checked=”checked” settings in the list. This occurs in the ‘radio’ switch statement of bp_get_the_profile_field_options() because of an IF-statement within a for-loop that I believe too liberally assigns the “checked” value to the default-value in the list regardless of whether or not there is already a set-value.

One alternative is to assign a variable before the for-loop…

$SomeValueChecked = FALSE;


… then check this variable within the IF-stmt before setting the default-value. Something like the following:


if ( $option_value == $options[$k]->name || $value == $options[$k]->name || ( $options[$k]->is_default_option && $SomeValueChecked == FALSE ) ) {
$SomeValueChecked = TRUE;
$selected = ' checked="checked"';
}