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Hello guys,

We are french students and we are creating a website with 3 types of contacts (Students, Teachers and Companies), it's a kind of direcory of alumni.

We want to create a form (with the webform module) where the user (students) could link him self to another type of contacts (companies or teachers). To do this, we create a custom field of the type contact reference, with Autocomplete Select, when we preview the result in CiviCRM it works well (like that -> Attachment: Screenshot.jpg ).

But when we create a webform (we go in civicrm tab and enable Civicrm processing) and then we create our form. Unfortunately when the user (student) fill out the form he can't select a teacher or a companies from the civicrm database, he only can select a "webform contact", (in case Contact1) (like that -> Attachment: capture.jpg )

For more understanding. Clearly we would like to students can add a professionnal tutor and a company tutor for a internship.

Any suggestions would be of great help.

Many thanks,

Adeline
Alexis
Simon

 Merci pour ton aide petednz ! (It means Thanks for your help )

We try what you said but we came across a problem at this step "Contact 2 set it up as autocomplete, and set the Default Value so 'Set default contact to' is 'Relationship to Contact 1'"

We don't know where to set the Contact 2 as autocomplete and set the default value. These fields don't appear (We are in the Civicrm tab)

We hope our english is understandable and for more understanding we add some screen (it's our civicrm tab in webform Etudiant=student and enseignant=teacher).

Many thanks,

Adeline
Alexis
Simon

I just read your original post.
Setting this up in webforms is more complex than in core civicrm, but it is also more powerful and flexible. I think you will find it can do exactly what you want.
You can also set up a "filter" (when editing the existing contact field for contact 2) set to contact type = teacher
You should read these instructions, they help: http://drupal.org/node/1615380

Check that the path to the js file is exactly this:
sites/all/libraries/tokeninput/src/jquery.tokeninput.js