Answers.Body: <p>One approach to this would be to use Relationships. Make a Relationship Type of "Editor of / Editor is" that will connect Individuals with Organisation sub-type "Magazine".</p>
  
  <p>Use that relationship to connect John as the Editor of the Jungle Journal. And similarly to connect Bob as Editor of the Birds Books.</p>
  
  <p>Then you can make a Smart Group of all Individuals that are 'Editor of'.</p>
  
  <p>Then repeat for the other Relationship Types, ie make one for 'Author of' and another one for 'Reviewer of'</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Love this approach. It looks like using relationships are the better way to go.
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Body: <p>We are new to CiviCRM and have consulted both this forum and the book + videos. Still at a loss for a solution.</p>
  
  <p>We have multiple publications with different people titles associated with it. (e.g. Publication A + Editor, Author, Reviewer, etc.). The titles can also be connected in another way (e.g. Editor + Publication A, Publication B, Publication C). </p>
  
  <p>We attempted to set up smart groups with the Title + Publication (A,B,C) but then when we wanted to create a second smart group with Title2 + Publication (C,B,A) and have it connect to a mailing list, it said "error- that group already exists."</p>
  
  <p>Q - How do we achieve the need of having to connect these titles and publications using groups or memberships?</p>
  
  <p>Q - Can memberships be a smart group?</p>
  
  <p>Q - Do we make Publications as a group, and Titles as a membership? Or use fields for one or the other?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance. </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hi Danielle. There are many ways to approach this and it would probably help if you could explain in more detail how you are doing this. Is a Magazine an Organisation sub-type? Is an Editor an Individual with a job title? If I looked at a contact how would i know who was who? Are you using Relationships (which might be how I would do this) to connect John as the Editor to the Jungle Journal? If you are using Relationships, do you have a specific Relationship Type for 'editor' or a single Relationship type of 'employee' with 'Editor' in the Description field?
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Comments.Text: For each individual they may have many "titles". For example, they may have an actual "Employer" but may be a volunteer "Editor" of a publication.  I agree with your comment below as a resolution.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Danielle Siembieda
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Title: How do we tie groups or memberships to a product and be able to mail with it?
ThreadText: # How do we tie groups or memberships to a product and be able to mail with it?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-09-02)
  
  We are new to CiviCRM and have consulted both this forum and the book + videos. Still at a loss for a solution.
  
  We have multiple publications with different people titles associated with it. (e.g. Publication A + Editor, Author, Reviewer, etc.). The titles can also be connected in another way (e.g. Editor + Publication A, Publication B, Publication C).
  
  We attempted to set up smart groups with the Title + Publication (A,B,C) but then when we wanted to create a second smart group with Title2 + Publication (C,B,A) and have it connect to a mailing list, it said "error- that group already exists."
  
  Q - How do we achieve the need of having to connect these titles and publications using groups or memberships?
  
  Q - Can memberships be a smart group?
  
  Q - Do we make Publications as a group, and Titles as a membership? Or use fields for one or the other?
  
  Thanks in advance.
  
  **Tags:** civimail, civimember, smartgroups
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hi username_0. There are many ways to approach this and it would probably help if you could explain in more detail how you are doing this. Is a Magazine an Organisation sub-type? Is an Editor an Individual with a job title? If I looked at a contact how would i know who was who? Are you using Relationships (which might be how I would do this) to connect John as the Editor to the Jungle Journal? If you are using Relationships, do you have a specific Relationship Type for 'editor' or a single Relationship type of 'employee' with 'Editor' in the Description field?  
  > **username_0**: For each individual they may have many "titles". For example, they may have an actual "Employer" but may be a volunteer "Editor" of a publication.  I agree with your comment below as a resolution.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-09-03. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  One approach to this would be to use Relationships. Make a Relationship Type of "Editor of / Editor is" that will connect Individuals with Organisation sub-type "Magazine".
  
  Use that relationship to connect John as the Editor of the Jungle Journal. And similarly to connect Bob as Editor of the Birds Books.
  
  Then you can make a Smart Group of all Individuals that are 'Editor of'.
  
  Then repeat for the other Relationship Types, ie make one for 'Author of' and another one for 'Reviewer of'
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Love this approach. It looks like using relationships are the better way to go.  
  
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