We have an intranet for a small membership organization with a wiki done in Drupal 7 and a CiviCRM 4.5 installation for member information. Everyone with access to one has access to the other, so we looked into the idea of linking directly to CiviCRM contacts from the wiki as appropriate (e.g. "for ad hoc reports, contact Nilesh").
Linkit is a Drupal module that makes it easy to insert links into content, whether through a WYSIWYG editor or at the field level. To simplify, it provides an autocomplete field that allows the content author to choose from possible destinations, then automatically generates the canonical link. This would be ideal for authors, to avoid having to look up CiviCRM contact IDs.
According to the module page,
Linkit links to nodes, users, managed files, terms and have basic support for all entities by default.
(emphasis in original). It does not, however, interface with CiviCRM contacts that should be recognized as Drupal entities when CiviCRM Entity is installed and active.
Is the fault here on CiviCRM Entity or on Linkit? Is there a better practice for linking CiviCRM contacts from CMS content?
