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Hi,

Thanks for all the great work done on CiviCRM!

I know that an improved household flow is planned for version 2.3, but many of the contacts in my database are couples and so I have been working on some simple customizations of my own to make it easier to add a household, add a member and then add their spouse successively.  I am fairly new to civicrm/drupal so I am in a little over my head.

I took what I thought would be a simple approach: I added a button for "Save and Add Member" on the add household form, then "Save and Add Spouse" and "Save and Add Member" on the ensuing add individual form. 

I then used:

$session->replaceUserContext(CRM_Utils_System::url($url))
in Contact/edit.php to conditionally redirect the url to add individual forms and also pass variables like the household contact id (i.e /civicrm/contact/add?reset=1&ct=Individual&cst=Member&hid=4263) where hid is the household id (to populate the individual's address with that of the household and create the "Member of Household" relationship) and cst is the contact sub type (i.e. Member or Spouse).  I then $_GET the variables and assign them to public class variables so I can use them within the functions of the class.

That all worked fine, but I ran into an issue with the postProcess() function in edit.php.  The public class variables I defined to hold the household and contact sub type ids are NULL in this function.  I did notice that other public class variables such as contact type and contact id are still assigned at this point.

Hopefully that all makes sense - any idea what is happening and how I would make all the public class variables available in the postProcess() function?  Is there a better way to achieve this?

apologies for not responding on the prior post. things are getting a bit hectic

we used contactSubType in the 1.x series for some client consulting project. i'm not sure if we'll use it in the future or not at this stage. Ideally not

lobo