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Hey all,

I'm a new user trying to use CiviCRM to manage a small-scale tutoring operation.  When I imported our old data, I was able to create entries for parents and children and tie them with parent/child and sibling relationships just by re-importing the same CSV multiple times with different mappings.

By comparison, it feels like a marathon to add two parents and a couple of children and relate them all inside of CiviCRM - especially for our computer-phobic administrative assistant.  For a family of four, you have to create a new contact four times, then pull up each of the four records, navigate to their relationships dialog, and create two new relationships each - that seems unnecessarily complicated. 

I'm thinking about making a form allows you to input an entire family's data, creates a CSV file for it, and then imports and relates all of the family members automatically.  Has anything like this been done before?  I'm not much of a programmer, and while the CSV creation doesn't seem too difficult, I'm not sure where to begin for a multi-stage import process -- I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions before I dive in.

Thanks!

-ps: since the goal is to eventually allow parents to log in and check on their students' progress, it would be extra nice if I could integrate this form into the Drupal new member dialog.  But I'll dream small for now :-)

check:

http://civicrm.org/civischool

specifically the application stuff does create contacts and relationships etc

lobo

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/CiviSchool+Installation

lobo

Alright, I switched hosting and re-installed CiviCRM, and that seems to have fixed some of it.  CiviSchool still doesn't show up in the admin console (not sure if it's supposed to?), and only a very limited subset of its capabilities are revealed by the 6 or so links in the menu bar. 

It took me a few minutes of plugging in guesses to find the Application page, but eventually I found the address (I think I did, anyway).  Only, there's a problem:  whenever I try to preview data or move past the second page of the form, I get this error, and Drupal sends me back to the homepage.  It sounds like it isn't properly assigning a user ID to the new student?

SFS Family Information
Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
cid (value: ) is not of the type Positive
Return to home page.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!  You guys are awesome.

Thanks again
-fl