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Is it possible to assign contacts created in Civicrm with Drupal UserID and Password during either CIVICRM contact creation or contact editing process with new, existing or imported contact?
I believe one can create "users" in Drupal and then export/sync the drupal user into CiviCRM contacts. But, can it be done in reverse?
Help Appreciated
Thnks
There are several ways to go about this.
I wrote a somewhat convoluted guide a couple of years ago for creating a Drupal contact for a bunch of existing Civi contacts: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Creating+a+Drupal+user+for+every+CiviCRM+contact
However, I'd say the best practice today is to use the civicrm_entity Drupal module in combination with the rules module to automate this. There's an excellent blog post about that here: https://civicrm.org/blogs/petednz/creating-drupal-users-made-easy-single-or-multiple-contacts-civi-imports-and-webforms
If you have a contact already created and want to create a Drupal user manually (in a one-off or as-needed fashion), there is an action set up which can be used when you are viewing the contact record:
Find it under Actions > Create user record.
Creating CMS users during contact creation is simple, look at the advance settings on the profile. See my article on profiles.
