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Hi,

I think I need to understand how I can trigger the creation of a timestamp of some sort for a contact upon their submission of a profile form.  I'm hoping there is a hook of some sort that I can use.

The bigger context is that I'm trying to set up a petition.  All I want, is to let people sign it, and have them stored in our CiviCRM DB in a way that they can be redisplayed in the order they signed (this is why I need a timestamp).

My approach is simply to set up a profile in civicrm with the extra fields needed for the signatures, and then have the submission form for this profile in a drupal page.  When that profile is successfully submitted, what I would love to happen, is that a custom bit of code would run-- a hook, or something registered as a listener? -- that would call crm_create_activity_history() on the contact just created/modified, adding the time that this person signed the petition.  Or, just to fill in a custom data field (part of the petition profile) with the current time and date. 

I'm getting pretty good with Drupal code, but am new to the innards of CiviCRM.  Can anyone here help me out?

Many thanks!

Dan

Thank you, lobo. 

I have already looked into these.  Petition appears to have been abandonned, not having even been ported to 5.x yet.  SignIt says it is actually a fork of Petition, and is still being actively developed.

I had already tried installing SignIt both on the site I am talking about, and on an out-of-box clean install of Drupal 5.5, but I can't see how to get it running.  I've got all its permissions turned on, but still the admin pages listed in hook_menu() aren't showing up, and I can see how to make it do what it is supposed to do.  Just got frustrated with that, and thought that a simple profile submission might be simpler.

Any easy advice on what to do with that?  If not, maybe I'll just try a little harder to get SignIt working, maybe post an issue about it, or look in its innards to see how it does timestamping in CiviCRM.

Thanks again,
Dan

Thanks a lot!  Will be working on this again in a few days, and will post to let you know how it went.

Dan