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For an employer, if we type in a contact that doesn't exist, it creates that contact. But if the user types in a contact that does exist then it suggests that name as an option.

It would be great if we could create those types of contact-reference-with-creation fields ourselves!

Are we able to now, but I just don't know about it? Or are we not able to at all?

This is in a webform.

And we need another custom field contact reference to do the same.

Do we just set it to not be an autocomplete contact reference in the webform?

Hi Coleman,

Thanks for the response. Sadly when I do that I get the following (attached).

Ideally it should say just the name of the organisation that is typed in.

Would overwriting it in jQuery cause it to stop creating the entry?

Also, and this is a minor aside, you can only prepopulate it from a relationship or a parameter (i.e. cid6=). Can't we populate it from the entry that's in the filling in contact's custom field, as we can with other fields?

That's an ace idea.

What we're doing with our employer is not auto-suggesting anything.

For anyone to do this - follow the steps in the instructions, but don't enable the "existing contact" for contact 2. Just enable the organisation's name.