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Organisation name in contact address
October 05, 2010, 06:54:11 am
I am a new user of civi. Am I correct that civi does not store Organisation names in a separate table? I have imported Individuals with their Organisation linked as a relationship. I have then imported addresses for the Organisations. However I cannot get the name of the Organisation to show up in the address of the Individual unless I go into the individual record and manually copy and paste the Organisation name over. Surely there must be a simpler way to do this?

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Re: Organisation name in contact address
October 05, 2010, 07:24:14 am
Hi,

This is indeed a missing feature, but you can make it happen: !
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Integrate "Address Inheritance from Organization to an Individual" work with "Current Employer" field on Contact Edit form

This will automatically link a contact's work address with their employer's address off the contact summary (and potentially extendable to the on-behalf-of form)
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Re: Organisation name in contact address
October 05, 2010, 12:29:48 pm
I am a bit less clear on what Joe is asking for. If the relationship is Employee of, then the Organisation does show on the Individual's summary screen. Joe, are you asking that you want a similar outcome for a different Relationship type?
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Re: Organisation name in contact address
October 11, 2010, 09:15:40 am
Hello

Thank you for your help. Yes, we would like to be able to generate a postal label with the organisation name in the address for everyone who has an organisation as their main address (whether they have an employee, trustee or volunteer relationship with that organisation). We will also want the organisation name to show up in reports on these individuals, especially from within civi event.

As I mentioned in my initial post, I am a new user and I'm playing with a training copy of civi. I have found settings/addresses and how to include current_employer in the label. And for more complicated labels we could export to excel and then do a mail merge to word to produce labels.

But this will not fix our need to produce an event report that shows what organisation someone is from, whether they are a volunteer or employee at the organisation.

Loads of other people must have this problem - what do you do?

Thanks again,  Joe


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Re: Organisation name in contact address
October 12, 2010, 09:45:22 am
Sorry, it's me again. I have now realised that I can add a special field to the address tab and can search on it in Advanced searches. But how do I get this field to be included in reports (general and events to start with)? Is this a coding issue? thanks

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