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I'm trying to allow a user to update some information about the organization he belongs to - for example a contact phone number and email.

I thought that by creating a custom profile displaying these fields, he could do it - however, I keep getting the message "This profile is configured for contact type 'Organization'. It cannot be used to edit contacts of other types."

Is there any way around this or am I going to have to hand code the update form in PHP?

Thanks

Sounds good - how do i set that up.

Example

person A, person B and person C are "employees of" company D

If I only wanted Person A and person B to be able to update Company D, what would I need to do.

Thanks

Thanks

I'va actually hand coded the update routine now.

It's just PHP code that calls the APIs

I'm not sure the client would be all that happy about me sharing code they're paying me to write. But basically it's APIs to get the information, display it on a form, call the same PHP code, use APIs to update the information then redisplay the form to finish

Simple but time consuming

True, but I don't know how helpful the code will be (basically because there's additional fields updated, etc.). I can describe the logic, and developers can write their own code around it

so here goes

call this code using jumi from an article

get passed information from form - if it's supplied we're updating

if there's any passed info
     update organisation info using civicrm_api('contact', 'update', $params)
end if

get logged in user's email address (Joomla call)

get the users info (contact)

using 'current_employer' as 'organization_name' get organisation info (uncluding any custom fields)

Display all this in a form

submit button calls this routine again passing over displayed form parameters + organization_name & organization_id as hidden fields