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I have over 500+ contact records imported into CiviCRM as Organizations.  They have e-mail addresses entered.  When I go to create a Drupal user account for one of these contact/organizations, CiviCRM doesn't seem to check the matching e-mail - it creates a new contact record (individual) for the user.  I want them to match.  Is it possible to match Organization contacts to a Drupal account? 

It works when I try matching a Drupal user to a CiviCRM individual record.  CiviCRM sees it's a match and just links the 2 accounts as it should.  It doesn't create a duplicate.  But I can't get this to work for my organizations.

I'd hate to have to re-import all of my orgs as individuals.  Is there any method of doing this so they match?  You would think there shouldn't be a difference here since it's just checking on e-mail address.  So Organizations should match to a Drupal account if the e-mail is the same ... but I can't get it to work.

Also - I don't want to create Drupal accounts for all of my 500+ Orgs. Only for those Orgs that have valid e-mails and that are "distributor" status.  The reason I mention this is because I don't want to export and then import all the records into Drupal - I want to do it manually Org to Org.  So when I see an Org that I want to create a matching Drupal account for I want to be able to do this specifically at that point of time for that Org account.

Also - my contact matching rules are set correctly to check on e-mail address.

Any suggestions would be most welcome! 

BTW - I'm using Drupal 5.x and CiviCRM 2.0.6.

Thanks!

-backdrifting

Ok, thanks.  It would be a nice enhancement/feature request for a future release of CiviCRM - to be able to sync Organization contacts.

-backdrifting

1) works in practice successfully on first sync after install.  (except that the sync maps the email address in drupal to both the name field and the email address field in civicrm ignoring the actual data in the drupal username field.  Lobo has said that the code is written that way and needs a hack if you want it to do something else.

If you are not aware, there is "Synchronize Users to Contacts" in Administer CiviCRM, that will sync "Drupal Users" with "CiviCRM Contacts". Currently it matches email address in Drupal with primary email address of CiviCRM Contact. If match is found then it links Drupal User with corresponding CiviCRM Contact, else it creates new Contact in CiviCRM.

2) after the first sync, civicrm_og_sync.module throws fatal errors if you a) add a new organic group in drupal

This module is for syncing Organic Groups with CiviCRM Groups. It is still one way sync. Few users in community seems to using it. So if you have any issues you should at least help to debug it. As Lobo mentioned "civicrm_og_sync.module" was a developer release in 2.0.x.

3) CiviCRM does not seem to respond to new events being created in drupal or vice versa.

CiviCRM events, ie CiviEvent component and Drupal Event module are two separate modules. So it won't sync with each other.

HTh

Kurund

As mentioned previously there are probably a few bugs and missing features with that module for 2.0.x. If you need to use that module, you might want to hire someone to help debug and fix the various issues associated with that module

lobo