Author Topic: importing to organization_name field (Read 1109 times)

JoeMurray · July 10, 2008, 02:30:32 pm

Is there a way to put data into the organization name field in civicrm_contact? I'm using 2.0.2, perhaps this has been fixed since then...

Donald Lobo · July 10, 2008, 02:56:01 pm

joe:

the organization type uses the organization_name field in 2.0. The other types do not use it

in 2.1, we've made 2 fixes:

a. we've added a new FK called "employer_id" which will point to the contacts most recent active employer (which is maintained via the relatioship "Employee Of"
b. we cache the "organization_name" of the "employer_id" contact in the individual's organization_name field. This simplifies a lot of things
c. This field cannot be edited directly for an individual record. However if u import and individual with an org and an employee relatioship it should get populated

lobo

JoeMurray · July 10, 2008, 03:06:46 pm

Thanks, I was expecting to be able to avoid creating a separate contact for the organization when I just had its name as the employer. But it is cleaner to store title and a relationship to a separate organizational contact record.

Cheers,
Joe

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