From what i know, the affiliate program tracking software (you are going to need something like this) just track the introducing person by an ID number. So the link should work both from inside and from outside your site. In the dropdown list you must create a link that keeps the ID tag of each member. At this point it's not relevant if the link comes from inside or outside your site.

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