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New module that links a civicrm entity and a drupal node
January 30, 2011, 04:01:58 am
Hi,

Working on a support system, the idea is to have the "content/discussion" part on drupal and the overview as activities on civi.

Got several options I can think off:
- custom field on activities in civi to store the node id
- CCK on drupal to store the civicrm activity id
- new table

What do you think ? What's the best option ?

No matter what, I'd need to write a few hooks
- create the node if creating the activity
- creating the activity if creating the node
- display page hook to put the link to the node on the activity
- probably update a bit the node when updating the activity, and vice versa

Not sure how to handle the delete. probably changing the status of the corresponding element  'orpheaned' instead of simply deleting it

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Re: New module that links a civicrm entity and a drupal node
January 30, 2011, 05:50:33 am
Quote from: xavier on January 30, 2011, 04:01:58 am
Working on a support system, the idea is to have the "content/discussion" part on drupal and the overview as activities on civi.

Got several options I can think off:
- custom field on activities in civi to store the node id
- CCK on drupal to store the civicrm activity id
- new table

I would think a CCK field--the code you write will be in Drupal so it may be easier to keep as much as possible in Drupal.

Quote from: xavier on January 30, 2011, 04:01:58 am
Not sure how to handle the delete. probably changing the status of the corresponding element  'orpheaned' instead of simply deleting it

Makes sense to me. :)
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