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I'm not sure why I'm seeing "Current Employee?" showing up when I click on the relationship details for a particular contact.  It seems that information has nothing to do with the relationship I set up.  What triggers that info to show up?

See this example on the demo: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contact/view/rel?action=view&reset=1&selectedChild=rel&cid=119&id=157&rtype=a_b

Thanks.

That's normal, a current employer has a employee-employer relationship indeed, and it's automatically set up when you save the contact.

It has some cool features: if you go the the employer and see the relationship tab, you get the list of all of your contacts that works for that company. Neat, isn't it ?

Same goes with the household.

Yeah, is it neat for that specific type of relationship (I do like it).  However, I'm not looking at an employer/employee relationship here.  I'm looking at other relationship types (like "Senior Services Coordinator is" in the demo example or "Child Sponsor is" in our implementation).  I'm trying to figure out why I see employer info on these relationship types when there is no real reason for that information.

Do you know what triggers that field to show up in the details?  What data in the relationship type causes that field to show up?  I'm guessing I have some flag set in the db which causes this info to show up.

Yes, the table looks good.  I've been playing around with it more, and I'm seeing a pattern.

If an individual contact has the "Current Employer" field set to something (to some organization contact), then *all* the relationship details for that individual show the "Current Employee?" field, even for relationships that have nothing to do with employer/employee.

To me, it seems like a bug on the display side.  It's setting the "isCurrentEmployer" variable to TRUE regardless of the relationship type, and the template is then displaying it because the flag is set.

Can anyone else confirm this is happening on their end?  I don't want to write up a bug report if it's just on my end.

I believe the link in my original post is a good example: try it as-is and you'll see "Current Employee?" in the details.  Then, edit the contact and remove the Current Employer field (make it blank) then go back to the relationship details and you will no longer see that field in the set.  Hope that helps.

For now, I put a quick hack in the relationship template to only show that field if the relationship is "Employee of".

Sure, here is the diff right after the foreach line (sorry, it was a quick fix, may not be the best method):
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<             {if $row.relation == "Employee of"}
<               {assign var=isEmploy value=1}
<             {/if}
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<               {if $isEmploy}
<                   <tr><td class="label">{ts}Current Employee?{/ts}</td><td>{ts}Yes{/ts}</td></tr>
<                 {/if}
---
>                 <tr><td class="label">{ts}Current Employee?{/ts}</td><td>{ts}Yes{/ts}</td></tr>