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My non-profit has a lot of members who sign up through our website.  At our national office we like to put them in touch with their local chapter.  We usually have to do this by hand, searching for the nearest chapter to them, and e-mailing them with the contact info for the nearest chapter. 

I know civicrm has a 'proximity search' feature, I was wondering if it was possible to add a custom field to a member's contact that would show their nearest chapter.  Then when I do e-mail's, I can insert a 'nearest chapter' token, and I won't have to manually figure out what their nearest chapter is.

Yea, I guess I was just hoping to avoid updating the 'nearest chapter' field by hand, because 1- that's a lot of member's who would need their nearest chapter set by hand and 1 - if they move I'll have an extra field to remember to update by hand. 

I'll have to play with the cron jobs, see if I can figure something out.  Either that or down the road we might have to hire someone to code a hook to do that.