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You can set up a civicrm profile to do this. Give appropriate permissions to your principal to use "profile create" and you're good to go.

Also, we have many schools, I'm trying to figure out how to get students to be students of the school. Schools were imported as organisations. Principals are being added from the back end. I want prinicipals to log into front end and add students to their school, and then only see their own students. I've tried creating some relationships but haven't got this all working yet.

Ok, here is what we want to do. We're running a competition for secondary schools ( high school in US) and students - We have imported over 1000 schools as organisation contacts. If a school wants to participate, we create a contact and a Joomla login for a school rep (principal, school secretary?). They need to be able from the front end of Joomla - using profiles, to easily create student contacts, and register students who want to participate in the competition. Students also need to be created as Joomla login users, because they need to log in and complete a fairly lengthy  registration. It could be that this part is a fairly large student profile form, but our plan been so far has been to view the competition as an event, and use an event registration process for the students to complete.  Problems to overcome:

• Principals must be able to add contacts and Joomla users from Joomla front end
• Principals must be able to view a list of students, only from their school, and click through to view progress of student application.

I think we have the student part pretty well set up, including profiles and forms. We have been playing around with acls a little but haven't figured out how to give the principal the ability to create student contacts who can then log into the system.

Also, we would like the principal to be able to update the organisation (school) profile as well, but CiviCRM doesn't allow organization profiles to be displayed on the front end.

Hi
We've had some level of success on this one. We found a Joomla add on called AddUserFrontEnd that we can use to allow the principal to create new student users from the front end. Then when the student logs in, the appropriate Civicrm profile is created. This is about 90 percent of the problem solved!

One thing left. The student needs to be linked to the school. 1600 schools have been imported as organisations. I need to find a way to automatically assign the student to the school. Alternatively when the student logs into their profile from the front end, allow the student to pick from the dropdown of employers (schools) the same way you can do this when editing a profile in the civicrm backend.

Thanks in advance for any advice or tips