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Hi Everyone,

First off, thanks for such an amazing piece of software!

Goal: Track board of director contacts of our organization, and allow custom data fields (position,biography) to be modifiable by the b.o.d. user accounts.  Finally, display this information on our website using Views.

A little background about my installation and us:  We are a community organization that represents a group of kiteboarders and fights for improved access to the Columbia River.  We are using CiviCRM to track our members.  We have a board of directors, and this is also tracked via a contact having the "Director of" relationship to our organization contact.

After creation of a user account in Drupal, I would like to allow users who's contact record includes a "Director of" relationship to our organization to be able to modify a set of Custom Data Fields which include a biography and name of their position.  I tried creating a profile, but I can't seem to add this "relationship based" custom data to a profile.

Am I even going about this in the right way?

Great, good to know I'm going in the right direction.  Yea, I can code in just about any language, just trying to avoid it unless I really had too.    I imagine I need to write a form hook of some kind?  Can you point me in the right direction?  Whatever I get working, I'll post back here for archival reasons.

Why not use the webform_civicrm module to build your form the easy way?
You could limit access to the form using roles, permissions, and optionally the group-roles sync module to automate it. Too bad it can't do smart groups, so you'd need to put your board members in a dumb-group for this to work.

Another Drupal success story! Makes me feel sorry for joomla and wordpress users.