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Hello,


Being a car organization, one of the things we would like to capture are vehicles and who owns them.  However, our ideal setup would be to build a unique profile for each vehicle and attach them using relationships.  A one to many relationship.  One owner has many vehicles.  Those vehicles would also need to transfer to new owners as they are sold/traded/parted out and crushed.

We experimented with making an org called Corvair Registry.  It does work if there is a one to one relationship, but not a one to many.  My problem is how can we create a contact type "Vehicle" without it requiring a unique email address, first/last name, etc?  I would need to replace that form with custom data fields that i've already made and built into a custom profile.  This seems to be nearly possible.  Any guidance on how to get around the form issue would be helpful.


Thank you,

Curtis

I will give this a try and report back.  Thank you for your help!

Also, do you know of anyway to make the system auto-associate the Vehicle with the user that is creating it?  In other words, once a user creates the Vehicle, how would they connect it with a relationship?


Thanks Dave!

Curtis

Update:  (Don't hate me for twisting this system into a pretzel! )  I have it working - sort of.  Here's what i've done, and my new issue...

The Good:
1)  Created new Sub Contact Type (under Org) "Vehicle"
2)  Created Custom Fields:  Owner (Autocomplete-Select), Year, Make, Model, Image Upload, etc...)
3)  Created a Custom Profile (Vehicle Registration) to which i added the custom fields and "Vehicle: Organization Name" labeled "Vin".  (Vin being required and the only unique information provided)
4)  Created a Group called "Corvair Registry" where "Vehicles" are automatically added to when created.  Later, once i had records, i opted for a smart group instead.
5)  I tested out the form in the backed with the instructions here:  http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/Configuring+Front-end+Profile+Listings+and+Forms+in+Joomla%21+Sites


The Bad:

Created a new menu on the front end setup for "create" and have the Custom Profile "Vehicle Registration" selected.  When i login and select that link, it gives me this error:

Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
We can't load the requested web page due to an incomplete link. This can be caused by using your browser's Back button or by using an incomplete or invalid link.

Return to home page.

Update:  For some reason, the menu link created in Joomla was currupt.  I delete it and created a new one and it works now.


Thanks,

Curtis

I think this is a permissions issue - since front-end joomla pages don't have "view contacts" permission (and permissioning is currently hard-coded in Joomla!). Note that there is a fundraising campaign to add permissioning for Joomla 1.6:

http://civicrm.org/mih#joomla

You currently cannot do that in Joomla (since permission support is quite primitive)

we do hope that the Make It Happen is funded: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=14 (currently at 34%) which will enable such things to happen with Joomla!

lobo

Andy - There may be specific permissioning for the autocomplete widget, or there may be some incomplete implementations?? You may have to debug things a bit using Firebug (check the ajax url that is being called when you type in the autocompletes and view that URL both as "everyone" and as front end admin. If you need some guidance on this, jump on IRC.

Andy - There was a successful MIH to make this option a built-in feature (wlll be part of 4.1 release later this year). In the meantime, this blog covers some ways to do it w/ a bit of customization: http://civicrm.org/node/528

Hopefully helpful to see the Access Control editing for Joomla (1.6) on our public demo:

1. Login at: http://j16.demo.civicrm.org/administrator/ (demo / demo)
2. Go to Components > CiviCRM >Administer > Manager > Access Control (http://j16.demo.civicrm.org/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/admin/access&reset=1)
3. Click Joomla Access Control - you'll see a dialog w/ sets of CiviCRM permissions for each user group.