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Hi,

We often input contacts that work for an organisation we already know. Inputing the contact details is a n steps process:
1) input the first+last name and other contact details
2) go to relationship tab,
3) add a "employed by" type the name of the organisation
4) get a one line search result, check it, and add the relation

I would like to hear my users complain that he steps 2 to 4 are too long, unfortunately, that's even worse and they just skip these steps.

What I would find very handy is to have an additional "domain name" field (eg acme.org) on the organisation. when I add a user (eg John doe john.doe@acme.org ), it detects that the domain name is acme.org, that it has already an organisation that owns that name, and automatically add a relation "employed by" to John.

It'd try to put my dirty fingers on it, but it's rather pointless if the domain name field isn't part of the core. What do you think ? Is this something that could end up in civi 2.1 ?

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This is scheduled to be part of 2.1: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v2.1 (search for employer on that page)

lobo