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jcamfield

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Members and Organizations
June 24, 2008, 10:31:55 am
Is it possible to create a process like this:

New Anonymous users comes to site, creates and activates their account.  This authenticated user creates an organization (which is checked against duplicate, existing orgs).  The user-created org is approved (or not) by an administrative user, and now other members can join it, events can be created connected to it, and other members can also join those events?

Now, OK, so that's probably possible.  How much is built in or available through existing tools/modules/php snippets, versus how much would need to be custom coded?

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Re: Members and Organizations
June 24, 2008, 11:18:51 am
Most of the pieces are present in CiviCRM - but there are permissioning issues and some "structural" issues that will require custom coding and potentially data model changes.

"Membership types" in CiviCRM are always tied to some "organization" (which is a type of contact record) - so that part of your "story" works nicely. However, there's no mechanism to create these membership types "automagically" when a new organization is created/approved.

Events are not currently linked to a specific "organization" - but this linkage could be "marked" using a custom field w/o any coding. However, event creation (so far) is implemented in a way that makes it most appropriate for organization staff or perhaps volunteers to do this task (rather than end-user / constituents).

I'd suggest you go through the documentation a bit on Profiles, Membership Types and Events - and then play with the public demo - in order to get a better feel for the gaps.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Documentation+Home
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jcamfield

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Re: Members and Organizations
June 24, 2008, 12:37:45 pm
Thanks for the quick response -- I already have a testbed setup where I'm exploring the various tools available (and mostly wishing for magic time and/or a budget to hire some programmers!).  The OG Sync tool also looks pretty powerful as a step towards my eventual goal, but I know I'm not ready to tackle OG yet :)

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