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I'm new to CiviCRM and need to do this.  In searching the forums I can across a message (quoted below) that said to change the Contact.php script which seems pretty straight forward.  So my question is will this work for new imports?  When I went looking for line 745 it seems not to be the ideal place to stick the code which makes we wonder if they were talking about a different version or if there are a couple of lines at the top that change the line location.

The method talked about in this thread seems somewhat involved (plus being new to this I'm not really sure what files or what is getting changed here).   Can I just update the table directly with sql after the import?  It looks like I'd need to update mail_to_house_id with the household id in the individuals contact table record, but in reading this thread it sounds a bit like one needs to have the address also in the individual's record, which if true would mean that upon changing it for the HH it would also automatically change it for the individual.

Here is the code from the other thread.

If you are importing contacts of type Individual and also creating relationship "HouseHold Member of" by selecting HouseHold Member of -> Household Name at second step of import, by adding following code at
CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php line No.745
Code:

                           //set shared household address if its having relationship member of household
                            if ( $this->_contactType == 'Individual' ) {
                                //get relationship type id of household member of
                                $householdRelTypeId = CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue('CRM_Contact_DAO_RelationshipType',
                                                                                  'HouseHold Memmber of', 'id', 'name_a_b' );
                                $relTypeId = explode(  '_',  $key );

                                if (  $householdRelTypeId == $relTypeId[0] ) {
                                    CRM_Core_DAO::setFieldValue('CRM_Contact_DAO_Contact', $primaryContactId, 'mail_to_household_id', $relContactId );
                                }
                            }