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I'm tryin to figure out the best way to do something.

Here's my scenario.

I want a user to be able to create a group membership for their employer.  I have created two membership types that include the "Employer Of" relationship.  This way I can have employees of that organization inherit memberships based on that relationship.  What I want is an employer "captain" to be able to create the group membership for their organization.

When I use the "create membership on behalf of an organization" feature under the Title tab in the settings for a contribution page I can use a custom profile that has at minimum the organization name and email.  I have even found some code and made a custom template that makes the organization name a autocomplete field.  Unfortunately, no matter if the user filling out the form already has their employer set to the correct organization, and the value entered or selected for the organization name is spelled exactly the same, a new organization contact duplicate is created.

I'm trying to figure out the best approach to get what I want.

If I use the "On behalf" feature, what hooks can I tie into to make the membership be added to an existing organization contact instead of creating a new one?

Or should I not use the "On behalf" feature, and just include a profile on the form that includes the Current Employer field and use that field to fetch the organization contact and add the membership?

Has anyone needed to create memberships for a user's employer, or something similar?

The other way to do this is to use Webform CiviCRM. This enables you to set up both them employer and emplyee AND the relationship. And you can prepopulate the employer field is the user is logged. Hope that makes sense.

With Webform CiviCRM, use the Contact checksum with a custom URL redirect to direct the person filling out the form to the Civi contribition page - all the values get filled in for you and they can go ahead and join.

Ah right. My brain hurts already.

Person A is not a current employer, they work for the organization that we want them to be able to create the membership for.

Developing/testing with user with all the rights...

The user has the employer set....but nothing appears in the Organization Name field...wish it was working.....

If that's how its supposed to work, then something is wrong

Basically, its not automatically pulling up the Organization contact information that is the employer for the user

and i am getting a bit confused as you said
"Unfortunately, no matter if the user filling out the form already has their employer set to the correct organization, and the value entered or selected for the organization name is spelled exactly the same, a new organization contact duplicate is created"
I was trying to clarify the conditions that should make that work without creating a duplicate Org.

Now I got to figure out how to let users's with Employee of relationships automatically have that permission set...probably sue the hook_civicrm_post( $op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef ) then if its a relationship creation , set the setting automatically

Wow, I'm gonna crack this, learning civi though, this is great

My hook to auto set the permissions so that the Organization field will populate with the users employer
function yourmodule_civicrm_post( $op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef  ){


if($op=='create'){
if ($objectName=='Relationship'){

$params = array(
  'version' => 3,
  'sequential' => 1,
  'id' => $objectId,
  'is_permission_a_b' => 1,
);
$result = civicrm_api('Relationship', 'create', $params);

}
}

}