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I have discovered a bad bug when using Merge for Organizations. I have reproduced it both on the 3.1 Demo and the 3.2 Sandbox.

The problem:
When you merge two duplicate organization-type contacts, CiviCRM will delete the 'Current Employer' value from all the individual-type contacts associated with one of those duplicate organization contacts.

To reproduce:
1) Make two organization contacts, both called 'CiviCRM'.
2) Make an individual contact for a 'John Doe' and make his current employer CiviCRM.
3) Make an individual contact for a 'Michael Smith' and make his current employer the other CiviCRM.
4) Now use merge for organizations to merge the two 'CiviCRM' organization contacts.
5) Open the merged CiviCRM contact. On the relationships tab, it will be associated with both Michael Smith and John Doe, as it should be. Now open both Michael Smith and John Doe. You will see that one of them - either Michael or John - has had his Current Employer field erased - it no longer displays 'CiviCRM'!! (Even though on his Relationships tab he is still associated as the employee of 'CiviCRM'! Ie, civi should be updating the Current Employer field to the new merged Organization contact, but it does not).

If anybody knows the fix to this, please let me know asap!

Thanks
-Dave

Hi Piotr,

I have added the issue: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-6184

Thanks for your help!!
-Dave