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I have a Drupal and CiviCRM installation and have some difficulty in implementing it. I read up on linking to profiles in the documentation:
wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/Linking%20Profiles#LinkingProfiles-LinkingtoBuiltinContactViewandEditPage%28s%29

Sending emails in the format:
http://<site root>/civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&gid=N&id={contact.contact_id}&{contact.checksum}
..works perfectly: the contact's form is revealed with the selected options.

I'd like this record view to be visible to anonymous Drupal users without having to email them.
<site root>/civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&gid=N
Right now it shows the Profile form, but the fields are all empty.

Is there a cookie that is supposed to detect the user to show their record?
If I add the user ID at the end of the URL, it redirects me to the home page: <site root>/civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&gid=N&id=xxx

If I go to view the specific record:
<root>/civicrm/profile/view&reset=1&gid=10&id=xxx
...I get a warning: "You do not have permission to edit this contact record. Contact the site administrator if you need assistance. "

The Drupal anonymous user permissions are checked for:
access Contact Dashboard
access all custom data
profile create
profile edit
profile listings
profile listings and forms
profile view

Do I need to assign more permissions?

My understanding also, is that contacts don't need to have a Drupal account to access their own CiviCRM record. Is that correct?

Thanks,
Tom

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply and clarifying how this information is accessed.

I think we'll resort to using it only in emails then.

Tom