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title: "Important: No letter navigation for a manual selection"
manual: "Academic Profiles"
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source: "Changelog/3.0/Important-NoLetterNavigationForAManualSelection.rst"
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# Important: No letter navigation for a manual selection {#important-no-letter-navigation-for-a-manual-selection}

## Description {#description}

The profile list and list-and-detail plugins let an editor pick the profiles by
hand (**List of profiles**) and switch the letter navigation on at the
same time. A manual selection ignores the letter filter - the list shows the
selected profiles and nothing else - so every letter of the navigation led to
the same, complete selection.

The list template `Templates/Profile/List.html` now renders the letter
navigation only when no profiles are selected by hand.

## Impact {#impact}

A list plugin with a manual selection renders no letter navigation, whether or
not **Alphabetical Pagination** is switched on in the content element. The
selected profiles are rendered as before.

Nothing changes for a list without a manual selection.

## Affected Installations {#affected-installations}

Every installation with a profile list or list-and-detail plugin that combines a
manual selection with the letter navigation. A project that overrides
`Templates/Profile/List.html` keeps its own condition; to get the new
behaviour it adds `&& !{demand.profileList}` to the condition around the
`Profile/List/AlphabetPagination` partial.