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I wish to collect data on an Organization during the membership process (online contribution form for membership) where a person signs up "on behalf of" an Organization in addition to the default Org info like Org address, phone etc.

Example:

"Company product or service" TEXTFIELD
"Number of employees" INTEGER

I can include a Profile in the form containing Contact custom data, but it is always inserted into the "on behalf of" Individual not the Organization itself.

How can I change this behavior in the form, so the data is inserted (associated with)  the Organization not the Individual signing on behalf of?

Does this get back to the whole "Org fields not allowed in Registration profiles" or if the desired fields are of type "Contact" can they be redirected to the Org not the Individual?  Also if a Profile contains required fields that are only applicable to a Org (but are coded as Contact fields because they need to be on the reg form), how can I not have these fields show up when you View/Edit an Individual?

Ok thanks I've got my work cut out for me thanks.

Forgive my ignorance, but it appears that hooks are used primarily for creating custom Modules that utilize CiviCRM functionality.  I have made a fairly robust Drupal 6 module before, but I don't really need to make a new module here I don't think.   Or is that what you are saying?  If anything it seems I'd want to simply redirect the data insert to the Org not the Individual.

I'm sorry but when you say "use hooks to do X" that doesn't mean a great deal to me.  Again I apologize for my ignorance, but there is a large gap between what I want to do and what I understand about CiviCRM, despite working with it on and off for over a year now.  You have the benefit of coding CiviCRM for a lot longer than I do and in greater depth so please understand that certain things seem more intuitive to you than they do to others.

I have read your hook specification here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification

It references a "sample application" here: http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/trunk/drupal/civitest.module.sample

But that sample application uses no "hook_civicrm" at all.

So where would I go to see any example of these hooks in action, can you please please please give me a little more to go on?

Thanks, I appreciate it
Stoob

Thank you, a working example was what I needed.

Thank you for your help.

Thanks to Lobo and Kurund.

I have posted a comprehensive "how to" cookbook on collecting organizational data through the membership application process by editing the PHP and TPL files.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Enhance+Organizational+Membership+Functionality

This how-to contains not only special SQL queries to create permissioned relationships but code examples and specific instructions on how to add more fields to "Organization Details" on the form.

This link is no longer valid and I can't find the document I wrote anywhere.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Enhance+Organizational+Membership+Functionality

Was it deleted on purpose or by accident?

Is there now a better way to collect custom Organization fields during "on behalf of" membership signups?

The original docs were for a 2.2.8.  Unfortunately the site that needs this work is not on 3.1 yet.  But it might be someday.  If/when that comes to pass I will be sure to update the docs where applicable, thanks.

Our deployment of Stoob's solution as I fondly refer to it, was on a 3.x - probably can't help with much by way of details but if Eileen can remember anything that tripped us up I will ask her to post