Merge pull request #6251 from LevityNL/master

[civicrm-core.git] / api / v3 / UFField.php

diff --git a/api/v3/UFField.php b/api/v3/UFField.php
index 0db78222f5d44e80efeb77c500e736ba8b7da3d5..bcb58c0f404d157cf977708cb1aacc22dbab9dc8 100644 (file)
--- a/api/v3/UFField.php
+++ b/api/v3/UFField.php
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ function civicrm_api3_uf_field_create($params) {
   $location_type_id = CRM_Utils_Array::value('location_type_id', $params, CRM_Utils_Array::value('website_type_id', $params));
   $phone_type       = CRM_Utils_Array::value('phone_type_id', $params, CRM_Utils_Array::value('phone_type', $params));
 
-  if (!CRM_Core_BAO_UFField::isValidFieldName($field_name)) {
+  if (strpos($field_name, 'formatting') !== 0 && !CRM_Core_BAO_UFField::isValidFieldName($field_name)) {
     throw new API_Exception('The field_name is not valid');
   }
   $params['field_name'] = array($field_type, $field_name, $location_type_id, $phone_type);