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Jameson

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Unable to add link to create a new relationship
June 05, 2007, 07:11:14 am
I want to be able to integrate CiviCRM better with Drupal by making links to point to everything in CiviCRM. When I create a link to add a relationship type, I sometimes get an error. The link that I am using is <site>/civicrm/contact/view/rel?action=add
 
I sometimes get the following error:
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Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
Could not find valid value for cid

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Re: Unable to add link to create a new relationship
June 05, 2007, 10:11:49 am
Many links in CiviCRM occur in the context of a contact. Add a relationship is an example of this - so the correct way to format a link to "New Relationship" form is to include the contact id (cid) of the contact you are adding the relationship FOR (i.e. one side of the relationship).

<site>/civicrm/contact/view/rel?cid=85&action=add&reset=1

Note also the reset=1 parameter, which makes sure that the session is reset appropriately for this operation.

CiviCRM sometimes maintains the current contact's context in the session - and this is probably why your link works SOMETIMES w/o the cid=xx parameter.

Also note that links for contact-specific forms and tasks will need to be generated dynamically (based on the contact you want to act on).
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Re: Unable to add link to create a new relationship
June 05, 2007, 01:34:13 pm
Unfortunately, every contact has a different cid. I have linked my Drupal users to my CiviCRM contacts. So, depending on the user, the cid changes. How do I assign the current user/contact in Drupal to the cid in the link? Is there are variable for the current user that I can assign to the cid?

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Re: Unable to add link to create a new relationship
June 05, 2007, 02:03:07 pm

You will have to use the civicrm api to retrieve the contact ID given the drupal user ID. the calls are present in api/UFGroup.php
 
crm_uf_get_match_id

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