What is needed to add activities in a profile ?

[xavier]

Hi,

I would like to ask structured questions to contacts, so they can register and fill these extra fields.

Right now, I have to add these fields to the individual, create a profile XX and send a link to the registration form:
/civicrm/profile/create?gid=XX&reset=1

However, some of these fields are linked to an activity (can be a yearly survey, a recruitement, a feed back evaluation after a meeting...) not to an individual.

I wanted to create a new kind of activity (eg recruitement), with a few extra fields (experience, bla bla) and put it in the profile.

Some issues:

1) It isn't possible to create a profile for activities
2) mixing various entities (participants+individual+org) fields don't mix very well anyway.

Would it be possible to change civicrm to handle that ? Would it be difficult ?

And do you think that's useful ?

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[Donald Lobo]

I needed to do something similar for my "school project". I want to allow the parent to schedule an appointment with the teacher on a specific day in one of the available meeting slots

I modeled this as an activity (since a meeting fits perfectly with the activity model!). Since the meeting slots were fixed, i created the activities before hand but left the "with contact" empty. In the profile i use the buildForm hook to inject a select html element of available slots and i use the postProcess hook to update the appropriate activity. Works quite nicely

I also have done something similar to embed custom data with multiple records in profiles. All the code is available here:

http://svn.civicrm.org/sfschool/trunk/

Based on what i did, i think its not a trivial project to generalize and add to CiviCRM core. in general all 1 -> n relationships have certain assumptions on how they are managed and handled and whats considered a duplicate (and hence should be updated) and whats a new record.

lobo

[xavier]

Neat !

You're proably right about the assumption on when to add vs. when to update...

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