Drupal User registration form: Linking individuals to their alumni organization

[gmasky]

Hello,

I am testing out civicrm for a central alumni organization that has other alumni organizations as its members (contact type = Organization). There are a fixed number of such member organizations.

Individual alumni (contact type Individuals) are allowed to register on the site. I have created a new relationship for Individuals Alumnus of and Parent Association of

My use case is: at the time of registration an individual enters his personal details and chooses his alumni organization from an auto complete drop down.

Is this possible and how?

Thanks.

[petednz]

hi - there will be several solutions - the one I would jump to rather than using a Profile would be to use Webform-civicrm module, set it up so it loads x2 contacts, where the 2nd contact is filtered to just be your autocomplete of alumni orgs, and set it up so the relationships is created upon submission - all simply implemented via the UI. and the documentation on webform_civicrm is very good in this respect.

[petednz]

sorry - just saw the topic title and realised that you are wanting to create drupal user at same time.
while this is also possible via the route i suggested but it gets more complicated (see blog if you want to know more about that route - https://civicrm.org/blogs/petednz/creating-drupal-users-made-easy-single-or-multiple-contacts-civi-imports-and-webforms)

i was thinking you may be able to do this via Profiles now anyhow, using a Custom Field of type Contact Reference - and limiting it to a Group of your Alumni Orgs - but afaik that can't create the relationship without use of a post process hook or some other magic.

[sushant]

If I understood this correct, this may help you. You can add Current employer field in Profile .
Adding "current employer" field in profile , will create the relation between the newly created Individual and organization.

S.

[petednz]

yes that is a good point, and can be a workaround, but it uses the employee/employer relationship - so if you are happy to repurpose that, then it is the simplest approach

[sushant]

If you don't want "employee/employer relationships" than you can handle it with the help of little customization.

S.

[gmasky]

I thought about using the Current employer field and Employee/Employer relationship.

However what will it take to have a custom field "Alumnus of" and then use the Relationship (I have created) Alumnus of and Parent Association of

How do I create a custom field that will be used for an Individual and use the Relationship I have created?

Thanks

[sushant]

You can add custom field in profile and than use CiviCRM hooks like  post process to write the relationship logic.

http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/organising-your-data/custom-fields/

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Hook+Reference

S.

[gmasky]

Thank You @sushant

I thought linking an Individual and Organization at user registration would be much more straightforward.

[gmasky]

I was thinking you may be able to do this via Profiles now anyhow, using a Custom Field of type Contact Reference - and limiting it to a Group of your Alumni Orgs - but afaik that can't create the relationship without use of a post process hook or some other magic.

Apologies for re-opening this. I decided to go with the Contact Reference + Groups to expose only the Name of the Organization. This works with logged in users with permission. However it does not work for anonymous users. No magnifying glass icon in the right of the field and no contact drop-down appears. Here is a test site http://stanislaus.in/jaai/user/register

Similar to what has been reported here http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,20922.0.html

Is this still not doable as reported in the issue or am I missing something.

[pkeogan]

Did you check your permissions?

[gmasky]

Thanks,

It was a permission issue specifically

CiviCRM: access contact reference fields and
CiviCRM: access all custom data

[petednz]

thanks for posting back

maybe the 'custom all data' was tripping up here too http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,31625