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Is there a way to turn off the feature which makes an individual who has an address shared with a business automatically an employer of the business?

For example, if individuals are students at a college, they will share the same address as the main college mailing address.  However, they are not employed by the college.  Only the staff in the database would be employees of the college.  The same can be said of individuals living in assisted living communities.

Thanks

I had the same issue, though my problem was that contacts with an "employee of" relationship would lose that relationship if an address was shared with another organization.

I did this by making a custom php template for Core/BAO/Address.php

in processSharedAddressRelationship (line 982 on my version) there's a bit that checks if the contact the relationship is being made with is an individual or organization and adjusts accordingly.

on 1016:

       if ( $sharedContactType == 'Organization' ) {

           require_once 'CRM/Contact/BAO/Contact/Utils.php';
           return CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact_Utils::createCurrentEmployerRelationship( $currentContactId, $sharedContactId );
 
} else {
             // get the relationship type id of "Household Member of"
           $relationshipType = 'Household Member of';

        }
so i changed this to

       if ( $sharedContactType == 'Organization' ) {

       return;
} else {

return;
        }
This shares the address but does not create any relationship - so if a relationship such as employer of is required, you have to do that separately.

Not up to making this hack more friendly i'm afraid!