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Are there many users of CiviCRM with Drupal Commons?  There is an overlap between the two systems (Commons and CiviCRM) that is often easy to work with but at other times troubling.

It's the basic things that worry me.  For example, Commons generally accepts a person's first and last names on registration.  CiviCRM also wants this information, and generally obtains it via placing custom profile fields into the user registration and account edit pages.  Views integration makes this CiviCRM custom profile information available to Drupal, but OG and other Commons modules (like realname and commons_profile_social) expect Drupal to know the user's First and Last names. 

I just found civicrm_realname (http://drupal.org/project/civicrm_realname) which "implements hook_username_alter() so that, if available and non-empty, the CiviCRM "Display name" is shown in place of the Drupal login name for username displays."  This sounds quite useful, and will enable me to use the CiviCRM profile to collect a person's First and Last Names.

And it appears the civicrm_og_sync module has been updated recently (http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-11908) - thanks guys (and gal)!

Are there other areas to watch for?  Am I in for a lot of headaches, or is it relatively smooth sailing as I start to wire these two behemoths together?

Thanks!
=Fen

Yep, they seem to be working pretty well together.

I'm connecting CiviCRM to a Drupal Commons site that has 30K users.  These users may have Firstname, Lastname fields set in Drupal (e.g., $user->field_name_first) which I'd like to pull in on Synchronize.  It looks like I can use hook_civicrm_pre('create','Profile',$id,&$params)  to do this, as $params['email-Primary'] should be set. If I can use the email address to pull field_name_first and field_name_last from Drupal (this is what I'm currently working on) and add the to the params[] array (as Joomla does) before the call to createProfileContact() then the contact should get created with the Drupal first/last name.

The UFMatch hook could be used instead (already has access to the Drupal UID) but then I'd have to push the firstname/lastname values directly into CiviCRM - though this might actually be pretty easy.

Has anyone else already done this?  If not, once I get this working, I'll post my (mini) module.

The module is still pretty basic - and still in dev state - but has been promoted to project status on drupal.org - see: https://drupal.org/project/civicrm_commons

I run civicrm as a module in commons as if commons was simply drupal. No domain module, same site.

I set the the CiviCRM admin theme to Seven (single column) but have also had good luck with Antonelli - a fluid width subtheme for Bartik.  On my site, users don't directly access civicrm, but may via webform_civicrm and/or views integration.

Hth,
=Fen