Answers.Body: <p>If you really just want the location field to be searchable, it'd be better to address that issue than to create a new field.</p>
  
  <p>I'd also warn that activities have issues when scaling your site. A lot of activities get created by default, and the api tends to break with a lot of records (my experience was from 4.4, and the api implementation of the limit records was only throwing out the extra ones after loading them all).</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>You can not switch this off as a user I am afraid. But you can hide it with a little jQuery to the template if you know how to do this. Is this something you can do?</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks for your speedy response. No I don't know how to hide it with a jQuery - is it straight forward to do? Are there any instructions? :) thanks!
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Answers.Text: Or css might be even better to hide a field. Neither is straightforward unless you already know how to do it, in which case both are relatively straighforward. If you want a minimal path, then just hide the field in your theme using a stylesheet.
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Body: <p>is it possible to remove some of the default/standard fields for activities?</p>
  
  <p>For example, when creating a new activity type it includes "location" as a standard field. However, you can't search or report by this field. I'm not sure what it's purpose is, and I would rather create a custom field that can be searched. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
Tags: <activities>
Title: Remove Default/Standard fields from activities
ThreadText: # Remove Default/Standard fields from activities
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-19)
  
  is it possible to remove some of the default/standard fields for activities?
  
  For example, when creating a new activity type it includes "location" as a standard field. However, you can't search or report by this field. I'm not sure what it's purpose is, and I would rather create a custom field that can be searched.
  
  Thanks
  
  **Tags:** activities
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-10-19. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  You can not switch this off as a user I am afraid. But you can hide it with a little jQuery to the template if you know how to do this. Is this something you can do?
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks for your speedy response. No I don't know how to hide it with a jQuery - is it straight forward to do? Are there any instructions? :) thanks!  
  > **username_1**: Or css might be even better to hide a field. Neither is straightforward unless you already know how to do it, in which case both are relatively straighforward. If you want a minimal path, then just hide the field in your theme using a stylesheet.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-19. Score: 0
  
  If you really just want the location field to be searchable, it'd be better to address that issue than to create a new field.
  
  I'd also warn that activities have issues when scaling your site. A lot of activities get created by default, and the api tends to break with a lot of records (my experience was from 4.4, and the api implementation of the limit records was only throwing out the extra ones after loading them all).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: the api tends to break with a lot of records?  
  
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