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Hi all,

I'm wondering if there is a setting to prevent civicrm from creating a contact when a user registers for a drupal account.  If not, could someone please point me to the code that creates a contact during drupal registration so that I can override it?

Thanks so much.

-axlroach

Sure. 

I have a civicrm database full of customers.  This data has been imported, and email address is NOT included as part of the data for these customers.  In the absence of an email address, the customer's account number is the way they are uniquely identified within the civicrm database.  Customers will then be able to visit a drupal site that is tied to the civicrm database.  They'll register using their account number, their email and a username.  The system will link their new drupal user id to their pre-existing civicrm contact id at registration time. 

Currently, all of this works as expected.  The only issue is that an EXTRA civicrm contact is created that just has the email address that the customer enters during drupal registration.  I want to stop civicrm from creating that contact record.

Does that help?

Thanks!
axlroach

CiviCRM will create a new contact if it doesn't find an existing one. It considers an existing one a valid if it would be a "duplicate" of the new one, so it uses the de-dupe rules to determine that. If your dedupe rules use email as the main factor, then your system won't work. You can change that I think to use name or some other data and then it should work as you want.