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I've been kicking around a project plan that would involve using profile forms in a new way, so I wanted to experiment with the profile API for a few hours. This is just the experiment, but it might useful for a few other folks.

Basically, the civicrm_uftool module provides two features that make it easier to publish links to profile forms:

1) Assign a true "pretty" URL to a profile form; the page appears in the Drupal menu, and it doesn't involve any redirects.

2) Generate a friendly mail-merge token for hyperlinking to a profile form. In composing an email, a user can insert the token without worrying about domain names, profile ID's, checksums, etc.

Installation:

1) Download http://arms.dl.locker10.com/devel/civicrm_uftool-2011-04-17.tar.gz

2) Extract in sites/all/modules

3) Enable the module

4) Navigate to /admin/build/civiprofile

5) For any forms that should be published in Drupal, specify a path name.

6) For any forms that should be easily incorporated into emails/templates, specify a token name.

7) If deploying on an older CiviCRM release, you may need to toggle the advanced options at the bottom. These are work-arounds for minor API variations.

I know of a few minor bugs that can arise if you delete or rename profile forms (b/c it doesn't get a notification about those events), but the main functionality should be OK.

Hi,

Interesting indeed. Would be great if the default urls (as generated by civi  - civicrm/profile...) are 'translated' too. As all (almost all?) url generation go through the same crmURL, should be simple hook to add there, wouldn't it?

X+

P.S. would be interested to replace civicrm/contact/view?reset=1&.... by something easier for the eye, civi/contact/42 and civi/edit/42 (miss moneypenny complains that it's too long to type