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I've got an established Drupal-based website for a sporting club. I'm looking at adding CiviCRM to support more info about our members and player registration via CiviContribute.

It seems from my reading that Drupal and CiviCRM play well together. However, having installed CiviCRM and configured membership types and so on, I'm having trouble getting the two to synch. By this I mean having one user-id and being able to move between both Drupal and CiviCRM.

So if a member logs in to our website using their Drupal account, how do they automatically get to their CiviCRM account? Is this even possible? From the user's point of view, I'd like it to be seamless, ie. they shouldn't notice they've switched into CiviCRM to update their details and pay their rego. Can this be done?

Any pointers appreciated. I've been reading the CiviCRM wiki, but I've been unable to find what I want.

Ah terminology  So Drupal has a user and CiviCRM has a contact. Both have IDs. Cool.

That the relationship is maintained is also good news. Can I see one from the other? I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any change to a Drupal user's attributes. But can you see a contact's corresponding Drupal user id? Can you display it as a clickable link?

Thanks.