DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTER
End-user, Administrator
City Bible Forum
City Bible Forum is an Australian not-for-profit Christian organisation. We need to communicate effectively with our constituents, and CiviCRM gives us a comprehensive set of tools for managing relationships. Interestingly, we often find that new features are being added just as our need for those features is becoming apparent. It's the right fit for us.
Consultant
Circle Interactive
We help many not for profits implement CiviCRM through consultancy, training, configuration and custom development. Many of them come from a painful world of old Access databases, multiple spreadsheets and even paper. It's really satisfying to
help people move on with a system that's so much in tune with their own ethics of sharing and collaboration. We also 'eat our own dog food' and use Civi in-house for our client records because we love the flexibility and control it gives us.
For us it's important to share code and advice with other members of the community when we can because we know we get it back in help at other times. The community really is awesome and one of the friendliest and undaunting I've come across. We appreciate the huge value of the software to us and our clients so we try to contribute back and make it even better.
DEVELOPER
NS WEB SOLUTIONS
I'm quite impressed with the responsiveness of the CiviCRM community, both from the core developers and many experienced users who have quickly provided answers and ideas in areas where I just needed that extra insight, or where we needed to do something totally new. After several years working with open source software, I'm finding the CiviCRM community to be the most responsive and helpful I've seen.
We make CiviCRM one of our primary offerings because it just provides so much right out of the box that our clients need, without a line of custom code. And when we need to extend it for the clients' unique needs, the APIs and programming hooks let us add in features that would be impossible in some other systems. This means we can provide great value to our clients with quick turnaround times and reasonable budgets, which is great for our clients and for us.
Implementor, Developer, Trainer
elMobile Inc.
As developers for various OpenSource CRM applications, we learned a lot from CiviCRM on its scalability and ease of customization.
CiviCRM community is truly organic cultivating growth for users and developers.
We wish to continue learning with CiviCRM and to tackle future challenges with CiviCRM.
Implementor, Developer
Third Sector Design
Being part of the CiviCRM community is really something to shout about! Not only is CiviCRM an amazing software package, its designed for organisations that make a difference in the world. We help non-profits across the UK gain control of their data through the power of CiviCRM.
It is without a doubt the best piece of software I've ever worked with, and I'm constantly discovering cool new features. More recently I've been working on CiviMobile as part of a project for my course at University. I'm really looking forward to seeing this being used by organisations across the globe.
Implementor, Trainer, Documentator and Developer.
Third Sector Design
CiviCRM helps us help non profits to do fantastic things with their data.
Being closely involved with the developers and documentation team on a daily basis ensures that we can give our clients the best and most up to date advice on how they can use CiviCRM to meet their needs.
Core Team Member
CiviCRM
I find the engagement with our community of users to be intellectually stimulating
and rewarding. Seeing folks with expertise in a particular area step up and contribute their time and ideas to help improve the product is quite exciting. Every time I hear about a new interesting organization starting to use CiviCRM, I get a renewed sense of excitement about our work. The range of civic sector organizations currently using the software is quite amazing to me - from large international advocacy organizations to local performing arts troupes. I also really enjoy interacting with our international community - building friendships and getting to share culture (food, music, humor ....) with colleagues on every continent.
End-user, Administrator, Trainer
Progressive Technology Project
CiviCRM is helping us serve member-based community organizing groups across the
U.S. to keep better track of their events, fundraising, and membership data. It's helping our community to aim higher in terms of what kind of questions they should be asking and what kind of data they should be collecting. We chose CiviCRM because it's the best all-around tool to do what our groups need, AND because it's open source.
Implementor
Ginkgo Street Labs
CiviCRM enables me to empower my clients with a database that suits their unique needs.
Developer and End-user
Fuzion
CiviCRM has one of the most active and friendliest communities I have come across. From initial tentative forum posts I was encouraged into engaging more actively through IRC and directly with other groups & individuals and am now happy to count many community members as friends. I recently found an article on the web that said if you post a question about CiviCRM anywhere on the web Lobo will post an answer within a few hours. It often feels like that is true.
One of the most valuable way in which the community supports me is by allowing me to bounce my ideas around and often someone is able to suggest an approach which is better than mine.
Developer and Implementor
Tech to the People
Over the past 15 years I've been involved in several open source communities.
CiviCRM is without any doubt the one that has the strongest focus in welcoming "newbies" and letting everyone feel at home here. Another impressive feature is the focus on shipping. No matter what you think of CiviCRM today, you are almost sure that there will be a newer and better version in a few months.
Comments
Instead of using
Instead of using CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact::getPrimaryEmail I might've used civicrm_contact_get() and instead of CRM_Contribute_BAO_Contribution_Utils::createCMSUser I might've used user_add() (which would solve your password problem) and I think it will tie it to the existing contact and not create a new one.
This came up at the NYC CiviCRM Meetup
Several people face the same situation. One solution that came up was to use the LoginToboggan module which can opt-out of a password requirement and create a temporary ACL role. I haven't tried it, but we are definitely going to need this soon - thanks for the tip!
so having worked on the
so having worked on the above, can you see a quick route to re-using some of that code to provide a button on the contact summary screen so that if there is no CMS user, there can be an 'add cms account' button done performs the required action?
Update for CiviCRM 3.1.5
/*
* Automatically creates drupal user from membership form in admin
* Requires the auto password generation module as password is required
* http://drupal.org/project/genpass
* (don't forget to configure auto-generation via admin/user/settings)
*/
function MODULENAME_civicrm_postProcess($formName, &$form ){
if ($formName == "CRM_Member_Form_Membership" && $form->getAction() == 1){ //creating new membership
require_once("CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution/Utils.php");
require_once('CRM/Contact/BAO/Contact.php');
$cid = $form->getVar('_contactID');
$email = CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact::getPrimaryEmail($cid);
$params = array('cms_create_account' => TRUE, 'cms_name' => $email, 'email' => $email);
CRM_Contribute_BAO_Contribution_Utils::createCMSUser( $params, $cid,'email');
}
}