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Hi.

So, I'm pleasantly surprised by the automatic employer - employee relationship creation when you fill in the "current employer" field on an individual contact form, provided both individual and organization exist.

I'm curious if there is any similar functionality for schools, and beyond that if there is any way to create this kind of linking with any custom field.

Thanks!

Erik.

Depending on how important "Schools" are for your organization/usage - they might be a type of Organization contact, and then various relationship types could be created to link students, teachers, etc. to schools.

However, there is no out-of-the-box way to create these relationships "automatically" from the Add/Edit contact form (or from a Profile form) as you can do with Employers. The relationships would have to be input from the contact's Relationships tab

As a side note, you CAN "auto-create" any type of relationship during import IF both the "student" (for example) and the "school" info are contained in a row of data.

Providing a way to configure forms to do the same thing is "on the radar" but not scheduled at the moment.