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For background on the feature request see:

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,27302.0.html

I have several individual members who must be individuals not households or family membership but have the same email address and are maintained by the same user (Parent or Coach of athletes) they update and pay for the membership and need the CIVICRM memberID for each. 

This system would allow a search for contacts based on email and allow a user to "switch" to that user, for security sake you would have to dissallow email changes within the CMS so people couldn't change an email and view someone elses info.  But this would be a great feature for our organization as well as some other Olympic NGBs out there I'm sure!

Best regards,

David

Thanks for the suggetion, My only problem is that my members need immediate access to their membership number for tournament registration and people who are already members and get a gift subscription woudln't this create a dupicate contact and another civicrm id for that contact?  I need current members to retain their civicrm ID number for eternity for our other 3rd party systems or it will be very difficult to track them in our tournament rankings system.

David

Your module looks great and I'm sure it may be useful for us down the road for gifting a membership (we had discussed that last year and it wasn't possible with our existing system -- at least very easy that is) but one key thing that will be missing is the way for the user to edit all the memberships they "own"

I'm really looking into swaping the ids on the civicrm_uf_match table then forcing a logout of the CMS and then when the user logs back in they have the ability to renew/edit as they see fit, it seems to be the easiest quickest solution to get up and running because right now we are down.  I would love to see a php way to refresh the civicrm _contact cache but I'm not sure how to accomplish that, the one way i know will work is force a joomla logout and then get the user to relog back in under the guise of "confirming your credentials" but thats not an ideal solution.  Transparent refreshing of the crm cache would make me go TA-Done!

Any thoughts on that?

David

Yes you are correct the Joomla equivalent of masquerading as the contact with a matching email, so no secuirty issues are in play since Joomla disallows multiple CMS users with the same email address.

I've already got everything coded and Ill share my hack, its very simple really (thats why I wanted to go this route) but I am working on the API with Joomla to automagically logout and log the user back in during the selection of the edit contact to clear the CIVICRM Cache.  If there is a way to programatically clear the civicrm cache on a per user basis via PHP that would be the preferred solution but from the other posts it seems this may not be possible??

Thanks very much!

David