Assign to one or more groups programmatically based on field choice

[holmesg]

I have a profile form that currently assigns new contacts to one predetermined group, using "Add new contacts to a Group?" in Advanced Settings. (Let's call it the "People Who Submit That Form" group for the sake of discussion).

However, I would like to assign the new contact to one or more additional groups, based on their response to a question in the profile form .

One of the questions on the profile is "I am interested in:" with a list of checkbox choices. What I would like to make happen is if they choose X, Y, and Z, then I want their contact to also be assigned to the X, Y, and Z groups in CiviCRM. If they only choose X and Z, then their contact should be assigned to the X and Z groups (the names of the choices and the names of the groups do not match exactly, but you see the idea, there is a one to one correspondence).

How would I go about implementing this?

[holmesg]

Any thoughts?

I looked at CiviCRM Rules Integration, but there aren't any events for "profile form has been submitted".

[FrTommy]

have you tried creating Smart Groups and basing the Smart Groups off the responses? That seems the best and easiest option.

[petednz]

I agree with FrTommy - Smart Groups could be your solution unless you then need to do something that rules them out. The approach suggested is a standard way of creating eg 'issue' based Mailing Lists.

[holmesg]

Thank you both.

It sounds like a good idea, however in some cases (for some of the possible choices on the form), the group we want to assign them to is pre-existing, i.e. a regular group. 

Is there a way to assign people to a regular group automatically when they show up in a particular smart group?

Hmm; I might be able to do what the client wants by assigning the normal group as a parent group of the corresponding smart group.

[petednz]

Would it be easier to think the other way round, and add the people 'already in a Standard Group' to a Smart Group?

[FrTommy]

That's what I was going to say too, petednz. Recreate your regular group as a smart group and then use the smart group.