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Hi,

I have been trying to integrate civi and with my drupal content with no success.

My process right now is I create a event in civi and it shows up on the site via the civi provided views as a block. Then I create a story node with the same information to get displayed in a view 'featured' block on the frontpage.

I created a new content type called "story events", that has the same fields as both as the "story" and the "civi activity." I was able to expose this to my 'featured' block but it will not display in the civi blocks.

Is what I am trying to do, possible or am I opening a can of worms?

Thanks in advance,
Hector

Here is a link to my site,
http://www.latinoequalityalliance.com/

Hi Peter,

Sorry about the confusion, I wouldn't say I am recreating the node as I am expanding on the information from civi.

Here is my drupal node.
http://bit.ly/cLK8JV

And here is the same content from civi.
http://bit.ly/aFZOaa

What I would like to have happen is either create a content-type that would record to both civi and drupal or create a view that would share common information from both records, to avoid redundancy. In theory this would allow the content to show up in the civi upcoming events block, followed by the past events block while still showing it in the featured view with minor or no modification.

I have tried creating a view, but if I create a view based on civi activities I am not able to get node information. And if I create a node based view I am can't view civi fields.     

I hope this made some sense.

We used a cck field that provides a link through to the civievent so that the node would have a nice 'enrol now' button showing on the drupal node, which linked to the reg'n page - but yes it did involve duplication of details.

Hey Mr M

So the Drupal content type 'event' had a cck text field in to which the civi event url was pasted - and the rest was done via css from memory so that it fired up as a button with link to the civi registration page