URGENT HELP -- Drupal Users Profile Fields Mapping

[jagjitsinghcse]

Hi,
I am using drupal 7 and civicrm 4.3.4
i have user profile fields that i have added , eg - gender , date of birth .
when i sync drupal users to contacts from the civicrm
Option Used -
Administer- User and Permissions - Syncronize users to contacts.

Only Email from the drupal users are synced with 'home email' of the civiCRM contact

BUT BUT
name , date of birth, gender and all the other fields are not synced .

Please Help Me !

Thank You in advance
 

[Donald Lobo]

civi does not sync up with user profile fields.

You'll need to write your own drupal module to do so.

if you do it, please share your code so others can benefit

thanx

lobo

[petednz]

i would recommend that you think about ceasing to use the Profile fields - import that data in to civi - and just use civi fields.

[Coleman Watts]

Agreed. Drupal profile module is not a great choice if you're using CiviCRM. Best to keep all your contact data in Civi.
A couple options to get those fields to show up in Drupal:
1) Embed a Civi profile on user registration/edit page. This is really easy to do.
2) A more drupal-ish approach would be to use a webform. Here's how to get it to show up as a tab on user/x/edit page: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=29924

[KamesCG]

I really appreciate the link to http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=29924 because I was about to begin down the road of installation Profiles2 and attempting to integrate that with CiviCRM.

The question still remains what's the best practice method in CiviCRM to integrate unique Drupal user registration paths in a maintainable way?

I am aware that I can create profiles, add them to the registration form and call it day. However, that doesn't really solve the problem of wanting to provide a more refined, and still maintainable front-end for a variety of Membership types, each with dramatically different needs.

For example, the current CiviCRM installation I am working with is intended to manage 1000's of regular members, 250+ merchants at the Marin County Farmers market and 100's of donors who need access to special media forms. At the moment I am still not sure the best path for accomplishing a clean, maintainable front-end Drupal system - which has special requirements to handle unique node-access for 100's of page, on a per case-by-case basis and integrated CiviCRM back-office.

I'm new to CiviCRM, so I don't know the code base that well, but if someone could point me in the right direction I would love making this a little easier in the long run.

[KamesCG]

In case anyone else is looking for information on how to integrate Profile type roles with CiviCRM registration I would recommend looking into...

https://www.drupal.org/project/autoassignrole