Author Topic: user profile "First Name, Last Name drupal vs civicrm (Read 3153 times)

vrazbros · February 16, 2008, 01:00:44 am

I have
- civicrm profile "First Name, Last Name (Name and Address section) for civicrm" and
- First Name, Last Name field created by Drupal profile module for Drupal modules.

So I have 2 filds First Name and 2 fields Last name in http://site/register

How can I solve this confusing situation?

Donald Lobo · February 16, 2008, 01:28:01 am

you might want to make a decision of whether you want to use CiviCRM or Drupal profiles to store user information. Using both is potentially confusing to everyone involved since CiviCRM does not integrate with Drupal profiles (and vice versa)

lobo

MiamiRon · February 17, 2008, 10:05:31 am

Donald: Can you tell me how to do that (select either CCRM or Drupal profile)?

vrazbros · February 17, 2008, 10:28:37 am

I just disabled civicrm profile in drupal user page. You can do it too in
administer civicrm > CiviCRM Profile > Name and Address > Settings

Dave Greenberg · February 18, 2008, 02:00:34 pm

Note that if you are using CiviCRM for your contact database - and contact's are registering on your Drupal site - you might want to take the opposite approach and disable the Drupal Profile functionality. Using CiviCRM Profile to collect contact name and address information during user registration means that the name, address and any other info entered by newly registering Drupal users gets inserted into their CiviCRM contact record.

vrazbros · February 19, 2008, 01:23:58 am

Yes. But in this case you won't be able to use Profile functionality in any Drupal modules.

geilhufe · February 19, 2008, 08:57:09 am

For the most part, IMHO, this is a binary choice: Drupal OR CiviCRM.

If you want to use your CRM data that you collect on CiviCRM profile in a Drupal site, be prepared to hire PHP developers to recode a lot of the contributed Drupal modules related to profiles.

If you want to use the CRM data you collect on Drupal profiles in CiviCRM actions (smart groups, for example), be prepared to hire PHP developers to try and bridge the two systems.

I am not aware of anyone moving Drupal/CiviCRM integration forward currently, but the profile changes in Drupal will make it a bit easier to solve this particular problem. Right now there are a bunch of ways to do profiles... Drupal code, bio module, advanced profile module.

I *think* that the right strategy is:
(0) Start with advanced profile.
(1) Use CiviCRM profiles to collect and store data.
(2) Use CiviNode to pipe that data into CCK fields.
(3) Assemble those CCK fields into a usernode.

The out of the box user experience will be pretty hideous, the key issues being:
- Prevent the drupal generated page from showing up on profile edit.
- Prevent the CiviCRM generated page from showing up on profile view.

References:
http://shellmultimedia.com/articles/deciding-which-modules-use-profiles
http://drupal.org/node/207776 (advanced profile)

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