Author Topic: outside of Drupal CiviSubscribe, how can anonymous users add himself to a group? (Read 10126 times)

shayaknyc · June 10, 2009, 11:34:31 pm

Quote from: dharmatech on October 22, 2008, 10:20:28 am

You can create a profile with the standard contact info fields (if you want) and then add the groups field to the profile. Only groups with public visibility will show so basically you're creating a sign up form where people can select what list (group) they want to join.

And I believe in 2.1 there is email confirmation if the group that is exposed is a mailing list.

here is an example: http://demo.dharmatech.org/programs

In this case, the profile is embedded in a drupal page.

hope this helps

tony
p.s. if you have drupal, make sure anonymous users have permission to access profiles.

So, I thought I had something like this set up. I have a profile set up to accept first name, last name and email and then have that user automatically added to one of my mailing groups which is set up to public user visibility. However, when I hit submit on the form, it just overwrites the first and last name as well as the email address for one of my existing users (the same one every time, each time I think I make a change, I reset the overwritten account with the correct information).

Any help or suggestions or maybe some insight into what I may be doing wrong...?

Thanks,
Shayaknyc

petednz · June 11, 2009, 02:54:34 am

Are you filling in the profile while logged in? Maybe you need to use another browser that is not logged in.

shayaknyc · June 11, 2009, 04:27:45 am

No, I use a totally separate browser that's not logged in...

--Shayaknyc

shayaknyc · June 11, 2009, 06:15:59 am

HAHA! I figured it out!

When I was copying the code from the standalone form link, the top code is:
<form action="/drupal-6.6/index.php?q=civicrm/profile/edit&gid=1&reset=1" method="post" name="Edit" id="Edit" >

I had to change it to:
<form action="/drupal-6.6/index.php?q=civicrm/profile/create&gid=1&reset=1" method="post" name="Create" id="Create" >

I wonder why the standalone form automatically sets it up to edit, and not create a new record....

--shayaknyc

shayaknyc · June 11, 2009, 06:28:22 am

Ok, I jumped the gun on that previous post.

Now, I get the following error message:

Please correct the following errors in the form fields below:
An account already exists with the same information.

*sigh* I'm so confused...

dharmatech · June 11, 2009, 08:02:16 am

I'm pretty sure you have to configure your profile to "update contact on duplicate match." That is under a profile's advanced settings.

hope this helps
tony

shayaknyc · June 11, 2009, 09:55:17 am

I don't mind setting it to do that, but what if it's a brand new registration? There's no duplicate matching. What about setting duplicate matching on is going to "fix" this?

Thanks!

dharmatech · June 11, 2009, 10:08:59 am

There is always duplicate checking with profiles. This setting just determines what happens when a duplicate is found. It was giving you the message: "an account already exists..." because a duplicate was found. With update on duplicate match turned on, if a duplicate is found, it wont give you the error but update the existing CiviCRM record with any new data entered into the form (profile). All new registrants (no duplicate is found) will be accepted as normal.

Be sure to configure your duplicate matching rules before you do this as well. I would recommend setting them to match on first name, last name, AND email.

hope this helps
tony

shayaknyc · June 11, 2009, 10:28:05 am

Wow! It totally worked!! Thanks!

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