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So we're a church and one of the great things about CiviCRM is the ability to track relationships. Everyone is related to everyone else at least 7 different ways it seems, so it's very helpful to have a record of who is related to whom and how. The only problem is that creating all of those relationships is a slow and tedious process. Even recording all those relationships on a csv and importing them is tedious, and inevitably creates duplicate records all over the place.

So what's the quickest way to add/edit relationships?

My thoughts on two possible improvements:

1. When editing relationships from the contact record, open up a mini-window without going to a new page, like when editing data from the "Summary" tab. This would streamline things considerably.

2. When a relationship is added, check for connected relationships and automatically add them as well. So for example, if I create a Parent-Child relationship, then there would be a check, if the parent has a parent, then a Grandparent-Grandchild relationship would be created as well. Same thing for if the original child has children, then Grandparent-Grandchild relationships would be created for the original Parent. Same thing for siblings and creating Aunt/Uncle relationships, and siblings and parent-child relationships.