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New Features in an Extension for Civi Groups

Submitted by LindseyM on September 25, 2012 - 12:50

If you want to see how a group has grown over time or view your Civi groups in their hierarchy, check out the new Groups Extension.

 

Like many organisations, Woodlands Church uses Civi groups extensively. We have groups which are mailing lists but many of our Civi groups are real groups of people who meet together week by week and group attendance is a significant indicator of engagement with the church. With well over one hundred groups in the city we cluster our groups by location and use the Civi groups hierarchy to reflect this.

 

Until now there hasn’t been an easy way to view Civi groups in their hierarchy but a new extension makes this possible, showing the groups hierarchied by their ‘parent’ group. Totals are shown for both child and parent groups and it’s also possible to quickly see members by clicking on a particular group.

Another great feature of this extension is the ability to see the growth or decline of a group over time. When you click on a group a graph appears at the bottom of the view showing membership changes. This doesn’t currently have a timescale on it but we’re working on that in the coming months.

 

In the future we’d love to develop the ability to report on groups, in a way similar to Civimember. Who’s new to the group this month/year? Who has left? This sort of reporting has all sorts of use cases, whether tracking the popularity of groups, the effectiveness of different leaders or the outcome of a local campaign. It will be of use to the many organisations who want to track changes but like the simplicity of groups rather than the complexity of Civimember when you’re dealing with hundreds of different entities as we are.

 

Thanks to our developer James for working on this extension. We hope you find it useful. Feel free to give us feedback.

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Submitted by SarahGladstone on September 25, 2012 - 16:53

I can't wait to try it in my own environment.  One minor nit: I would change the word "member" to "contacts in" so that end-users do not get confused about using groups vs CiviMember.

Submitted by petednz on March 1, 2013 - 17:05

 

Trying this out but not having much joy. Here are my notes.

this is a drupal module not a civicrm extension, hence download to modules directory

requires 'chart' module

admin permissions are set for this new module

Not clear where I should be looking for anything but tried civicrm/groups/heirarchy (noting typo in module)

Then I got an error that sounds like it maybe result of using v2 of API

On one site I got "Error. The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later"

Database Error Code: Unknown column 'Home-address.postal_code' in 'where clause', 1054

Any thoughts appreciated - would be good to get this better documented so others can give it a whirl ;-)

Thanks for any help you can provide