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Hi,
I've been working the last couple of days on the drupal 'petition' module.  First, I have updated the module to work with civicrm v2 api.  So now, it works, mostly.

But today I realized that only text type profile fields work.  If I use a custom data field like the multi-select, I just get a plain jane textfield. 

Sure, enough, the docs for the petition module confirm this is the case.  The reason is how the forms are built.  Essentially, the module loops through a fields array and outputs drupal form items for each field.

There must be a better way. 

Isn't there any way to just incude an entire civicrm form from a custom drupal module?  Are there any code examples of modules that do this?  Obviously some of the core features of the civicrm do this for user profiles, etc.

i think someone did mention this before, but a better use of your time and energy might be to contribute to one of the more recent petition things:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviPetition. I know xavier is working hard on this and has a deliverable pretty soon. He can be found on IRC

OR

http://drupal.org/project/activism Dont know the status of this, but might be worth downloading and checking out

lobo