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Create a relationship from Joomla front end profile
March 04, 2014, 02:44:59 pm
Hi
We have an installation where we have around 1000 schools imported as organization contacts and principals as individual contacts with a 'principal' contact type. We adding students as student contacts, using a student profile in Joomla to display a form in the front end of Joomla.  I need to establish a relationship between the student and the principal (or school) and I would like to be able to create this relationship in a Joomla front end profile form. There doesn't seem to be a clear way to do this. Ultimately I want the principal to be able to log in and see only his students. Any thoughts or ideas of how to do this?

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Re: Create a relationship from Joomla front end profile
March 04, 2014, 04:38:28 pm
All I know about Joomla is that it is different from Drupal, but perhaps you could get around it by about making each school an "event" and have students sign up for the "event" that is their school.

You might be able to restrict principals to viewing only the participants who sign up for their school.

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Re: Create a relationship from Joomla front end profile
March 06, 2014, 01:02:49 am
Interesting idea - but it has one drawback for us. The students need to fill in a rather lengthy form to participate in this program. They need to be able to fill in parts, save their application, and log back in later to it to fill in more. It seems that event applications usually are saved and that is it. Instead, we have the students editing their profile.  Can event applications be saved and returned to later?
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Re: Create a relationship from Joomla front end profile
March 06, 2014, 04:19:36 am
I am a getting a little confused when I try to put together all your posts and as I said before, I have no experience of Joomla, however...

It seems that the principal creates the student user and their Joomla login.  When they do that can the principal also register the student for the "event" that is their school? Then you could just use the form you were planning to use.  Or you could tell the students that their form is useless unless they "register" for their school.  The form doesn't need to be part of the registration process.

But you should really make sure that Joomla will let you set up permissions that restrict the principal to students who have "registered"  for his "event".    It might not.

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