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Hi there,

Can you give Drupal users with a 'parent of' relationship to another record the ability to not only edit their record (relationship based permission), but also register them for events, etc, using Civi forms which take payment. My understanding is that they would need to register themselves with a '+1', which in this case would be their child.

Reading some old posts it appeared that this was not possible, or at least not without complex workarounds. Has this changed?

Thanks,
Simon

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Background (for context):

In my scenario, both parents and children can hold different types of membership. Upon logging in, provided their membership status is "active", they will have access to different areas of a Drupal site. Children are registered for membership by their parent, and after approval the parent may then register them for events and view information otherwise hidden from the public. For this we will provide user accounts for every child member (not checksums) and the account email address will be one of the parent's, each of whom will have records created for them upon submission of the registration webform (mother and father details).

Issues with this approach:

• When the child reaches the age of 18, they may wish to become an adult member. By this point they will probably have their own email address. Somehow the address on record for that contact needs to be changed. The parent could do this, but it's not a neat solution.
• The same email address will be on record for at least two contacts in CiviCRM. New dedupe rules will be needed.
• If the parent of a child member wishes to become an adult member, a second Drupal user account cannot be created under the same email address.

Have I overlooked a feature which would simplify this?

At the moment, I believe we could get away with using a checksum for adult members when they wish to update their information, but knowing how to push it one step further - giving them member only access to content for adult members (not adult content!) - would be marvellous.

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Hi Lobo,

We tried the following:

• Built a Webform that creates the permissioned relationship between the parent and children
• Used Drupal Views to restrict the list of events the user should be able to view and register for (I opted against the BuildForm hook to reduce complexity for the organisation)
• Logged in as a parent and tried to register one of their children for event ID 2 using the following URL:
  http://samplesite.org.uk/civicrm/event/register?id=2&reset=1&cid=1336
• While we're logged in as the parent with the correct permissioned relationship, the registration still only loads the parent's details. The option to "register as another contact" doesn't apply in this situation, as the child does not have an email address, and the parent would need to fill out their child's details again.

Do you have any thoughts on this? Also, if it does work, how would you recommend generating that URL with the correct contact ID?

Unfortunately, in this use case, separate user accounts for each child is logistically problematic (the children rarely have email addresses at that age, and the parent would need to create new ones for each child, remember the login details, and forward mailings sent to the child onto their own addresses).

Thanks!
Simon

argh

took a look at the code and realized we dont handle it. not sure why, checking.

but it seems like its a fairly easy minor fix.

lobo