Creating user accounts on the fly with CiviCRM entities
You might want to add Drupal user accounts to your site when you create a CiviCRM contact. There is a Create User Account action on each contact summary screen on the Actions button menu. This allows you to create the account once the contact is created. However, this means completing information in an additional screen. Furthermore, Drupal does not send the user a notification that the account has been created. To overcome this, there is a new module by Eileen McNaughton still under development called civicrm_entity . This exposes CiviCRM entities to Drupal, which means that they can be recognized by the Drupal Rules module. CiviCRM entities include contacts, activities, memberships, cases, events, and contributions.
How to do it…
We will create a CiviCRM tag called "Create User Account". When we add a contact with this tag, it will trigger a rule that creates the user account:
Download, install, and enable the civicrm_entity module ...
