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I want to enable new users (i.e. unauthenticated at that point) when completing the Drupal new user form to be able to let us know who their current employer is, and for this data to create a new Organisation Record if that organisation does not already exist in CiviCRM. I've created the profile and exposed the Current Employer field so users can see it and enter data when they are on /user/register as part of their new account sign-up.

If they put something in the field this is recorded, and I can see the information they enter when I view the CiviCRM contact record (if I click on it - it is clickable -  I get a fatal error), but if I edit the contact record all I have for Current Employer is the drop down menu that lists all those organisations that have a record in CiviCRM.

Is there any way that I can let these users actually create a new Organisation record so that as they sign up they are not only populating my database with individual contact records, but also organisation records?

I've looked at ACLs, but I'm unsure of the correct approach, if indeed it is possible at all?

Any pointers on this issue most welcome.

Regards
Graham

CiviCRM 2.1.2
Drupal 6.6

I have been thinking around this too and had concluded that I may have to provide a text box to collect the new organisations contact details and then enter those in to correct fields at the back end

If a sure is logged in is there a reason that she can't just create an organization record using a normal organization profile?  I don't think the issue is the organizational record itself, but rather it is the relationship between the individual and the organization. You can always redirect a create individual profile to a create organization profile and get both sequentially.

If a sure is logged in is there a reason that she can't just create an organization record using a normal organization profile?  I don't think the issue is the organizational record itself, but rather it is the relationship between the individual and the organization. You can always redirect a create individual profile to a create organization profile and get both sequentially.

In my case they may well not be logged in when they enter the data.

You can have anonymous users fill out a profile that creates a new organization. However, subsequently allowing them to edit that data will require some thought / work. There is an existing mechanism to generate a temporary hash value in an email link which gives someone access to edit that record - however, the token is linked to the contact whom you're sending mail to (which might be the organization contact record email ).

Search for contact.checksum on this doc page:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Linking+Profiles