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Hello all,

I have been working on a project that uses CiviCRM alongside Drupal. For the most part, it is working great. I am having a problem that I just can't seem to fix. We are using Drupal 6.6, CiviCRM 2.1.2, PHP 5.2.6 and MySQL 5.

The problem I am having is that the Current Employer drop-down option doesn't populate itself with the contact's current employer. If I choose a current employer from the drop-down list, and click "Save," the employer shows up when viewing the user's profile. But, when I go back to the edit form, the drop down field is blank.

Using the template, I tried to spit out the employer data using:

{foreach from=$form.current_employer key=bar item=foo}
    {$bar}: {$foo}<br />
{/foreach}

and the result I get is:

name: current_employer
value:
type: text
frozen:
required:
error:
id: current_employer
label: Current Employer
html:

When I look up this contact in the database, the value for Organization Name is correct and the organization id (assuming this is where the current employer is stored).

Can anyone think of why this problem may be occurring? Thank you so much for any help you can give.

Sincerely,
Scott

Dave,

Thank you very much for your response. I added in the code you suggested. Here is the response I get:

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Array
(
    [11] => Array
        (
            [org_id] => 38
            [org_name] => Rifftrax
        )

)

I actually don't work for Rifftrax but that is just the test company I put in. So it looks like it is grabbing the correct employer... I am not getting any JavaScript errors and I have tried multiple browsers.

Sincerely,
Scott

Dave,

Yes, sorry, I did try the snippet and Rifftrax, organization id 38, is within the list:

{ name: "Rifftrax", id:"38"}

I am not too familiar with using the error checking within Firebug. I did set it to break an all errors, and it did not say display anything and the page loaded fine.

Is there anything outside of CiviCRM's admin that could cause problems with this functionality? I just have a few basic template changes for event registration, for example, and for viewing a user's past event registrations on their Drupal profile page. I am just listing out a user's past registrations using:

//initialize civicrm
civicrm_initialize(TRUE);

//required to use crm_uf_get_match_id function
require_once 'api/UFGroup.php';

//get user id from CIVICRM, using the $uid from the contact you're looking at
$userID = crm_uf_get_match_id( $user->uid );

// We will find the values from this contact using it's userID
$retrieve = array( contact_id => $userID  );

//required to use civicrm_contact_get function
require_once 'api/v2/Contact.php';
$getContact = civicrm_contact_get( $retrieve );

and

// Get the registered events information
require_once 'api/v2/Participant.php';

$params = array('participant_id' => $registeredRow['participant_id'],);

$event = & civicrm_participant_get($params);

But I don't believe I am doing anything anywhere that would write to a user's information and potentially erase it...

Sincerely,
Scott

Some other things to check (courtesy of Kurund Jalmi on our team):

1. Check if {$currentEmployer} variable is assigned in tpl.

2. Below url is called for setting default for current employer:

  http://civicrm/civicrm/ajax/search?sh=2&id=105

 It returns Organization Name., so we need to check if this call is made. (replace 105 with the contact ID you're testing with)

You should try:

http://www.ourdomain.com/civicrm/ajax/search?sh=2&id=38

HTh

Kurund

Can you jump on irc #civicrm , will be much faster and easier to debug your issue.

Kurund

Another related thread : http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5362.0.html

You can get the fix from: http://fisheye.civicrm.org/changelog/CiviCRM/?cs=18379

Kurund