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After two months away I finally have time to work on this again

It's great to see that the employee-of relationship can be used to update organization info in 2.1 (http://civicrm.org/node/352), but the release and my ability to upgrade to Drupal 6 are at least a few months off. I have an idea for a temporary solution that will prevent having to use the organization-as-user hack and make it easier to eventually upgrade. The disadvantage is that all registered users need to be given permission to update all contacts. For most sites I realize this is a problem, but for our small, low traffic site it is not.

Once the permission is set, the edit url .../index.php?q=civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&id=###&gid=n

allows the kind of editing I'm looking for, so the idea is to make a dropdown menu where the label is organization name and the value is contact id. (similar to http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,2951.0.htm). Then use the selected contact id to create an edit url for that organization, and send the user there when they press submit on a page. This bit I don't know how to do. Could someone suggest a reference? I'm looking for the code to use and where to put it.

Yes, thanks, that's just what I had in mind. I see now that it's really a javascript question. Anyway, this seems to work:

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function editProfile(id) {
  for (var i = 0; i < id.options.length; i++) {
      if (id.options[i].selected) {
        var url = ".../?q=civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&id="+id.options[i].value+"&gid=n";
        window.location=url;
    }
  }
}
</SCRIPT>

<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Edit" onClick="editProfile(orgId)">
</FORM>
Where orgId is the name of the select box. Thanks again!