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we have been talking about this at PTP. our use case starts with a profile's html snippet that is on the group's website. this website is separate from the civicrm database site.

someone submits the form, via the snippet, and the user gets sent to the civicrm site, to a form that has whatever was entered into the first form pre-filled. this second form is also a profile on the civicrm site.

the idea is that a civicrm ID is connected to this user by the time they get to the second form. the contact record either already exists or gets created by the time the user gets to the second form. the second form then gets generated in the same way that happens when you send a personalized email with a token that allows the receiver to edit their own record in civicrm.

i think that a hook needs to be written that happens when the form gets submitted the first time. that hook will grab or create the civicrm ID, generate the proper url that incorporates the token and profile we are using for the second form.

then, when the second form is submitted the record is updated. if the second form does not get submitted you have still already captured that email.

this is not done yet. has anyone done something like this? are there other ways to do this?

--josue

thanks guys.  those both sound like promising ideas.  i'll investigate further.  i do like the idea that just entering your email address and hitting "go" or whatever creates a civicrm profile and that on submission you then go to your user profile, which you can further fill out.