Drupal 9/10: How to create Event Location + Events using CiviCRM Entity

Question

I have enabled the CiviCRM Entity module. How can we create an event location and event in CiviCRM using a single form submission?

This functionality was achievable in Drupal 7 using https://skvare.com/blog/civicrm-entity-and-drupal-integration-whats-new-whats-next.

Is there a way to achieve the same in Drupal 8/9/10?

Answer 1

seems doable using https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form.

Steps I followed was:

• Enable Location Block, Address & Event Entities in CiviCRM Entity Settings page.
• Ensure module weight for CiviCRM Entity is lower than Inline entity form.

drush ev 'module_set_weight("civicrm_entity", -10);'

• Rebuild cache (drush cr) 2-3 times before proceeding for the next step.

• Structure => CiviCRM Entity => CiviCRM Location block => Manage Form Display

• Enable Address ID field and ensure Widget is set to Inline entity form.

• Similarly, enable Location Block ID field and set the widget to Inline entity form in Structure => CiviCRM Entity => CiviCRM Event => Manage Form Display

• Visit the form at /civicrm-event/add to create events

Note: APIv3 requires contact_id and location_type_id field while creating address in civicrm. The former is not required while creating address for events so can be considered as an api bug.

Ensure these 2 fields are present on the Address entity to avoid any fatal error on the form submission.