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Displaying related contact
September 13, 2011, 06:47:08 am
Can't seem to figure this out...What's the best way to display a related contact to a user logged into the cms?

I need to display information on the assigned counselor - contact info, a custom field, photo, etc.  This should be easy...but for starters I can't get the "Contact Dashboard" to display any relationships (and btw... its not available on the d7 demo site so I can't test it there  :().

Ultimately I'd like a Drupal block that would show this information.

Pointers anyone?

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Re: Displaying related contact
September 13, 2011, 07:22:22 am

Only related contacts that are "permissioned" are displayed on the contact dashboard

so in the relationship, ensure u check that "Contact A has permission to edit/view details of Contact B"

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Re: Displaying related contact
September 13, 2011, 07:39:23 am
Ok - we'll that explains why the Contact Dashboard wasn't displaying... and shows that I can't borrow the functionality of the dashboard b/c I can't set permissions that way.

I need "children" to see info on their "parent".  I can do this via the API - is there no way to do this via  profile?

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Re: Displaying related contact
September 13, 2011, 08:50:48 am

u can potentially try to do this via views and get the "related contact" info.

profile is basically restricted to one contact

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Re: Displaying related contact
September 13, 2011, 12:07:38 pm
You can also override (or add at the bottom using the .extra.tpl new feature) and use {crmAPI} to fetch the relationship, then normal smarty to display them.

http://civicrm.org/node/599

and use the api explorer to find what params you need for the relationship api.

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