Upcoming Events
San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - February 8th, 2012
February 8th, 2012
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing (more...)
UK usergroup - London meetup
February 8th, 2012
Come and meet others from the UK that are using CiviCRM or are interested in (more...)
London user and administrator training
February 23rd, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM London sprint Feb 2012
February 27th, 2012
Following the CiviCRM training here in London, we will have a CiviCRM code (more...)
UK South West - CiviCRM Meetup
March 20th, 2012
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[Bristol, UK] user and administrator training
March 21st, 2012
A comprehensive hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
San Francisco user and administrator training
March 29th, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM Usability, Test and Code Sprint - San Francisco (March 2012)
March 29th, 2012
This usability, code and test sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and (more...)
CiviCon 2012 San Francisco Bay Area - April 2nd 2012
April 2nd, 2012
CiviCon is THE annual event bringing together the people who use, develop, (more...)
CiviCRM Documentation, Test and Code Sprint - after CiviCon San Francisco (April 2012)
April 4th, 2012
This sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and developers who want to work on (more...)
CiviCRM Components
Tools for engaging your supporters...
New dedupe for CiviCRM 2.1 – check it out on sandbox
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCASE
Case management for clients and constituents.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
The new dedupe engine and UI landed on trunk (development part of our code repository) last week, and we’d be more than happy if you gave it a try on our CiviCRM 2.1 sandbox and let us know how it works for you.
The new dedupe, besides the engine changes described earlier, sports a new user interface. Navigate to Administer CiviCRM → Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts and check out the new admin screens.
Since 2.1, you are not limited to editing the three rule groups (one per contact type), but can create your own. The change that lets you use various dedupe rule groups for a given contact type without having to redefine them is accompanied by two new properties – ‘defaultness’ and level, explained below.
Another change in CiviCRM 2.1 is that the dedupe engine is used for contact matching through the whole application. For this, the two ‘fuzziness’ levels of dedupe rule groups were added: contact creation/edit uses the default fuzzy rule group (for the given contact type), while import, profile creation/edit and event/contribution registration use the default strict rule.
The last (but definitely not least) important thing about the new dedupe engine is the performance improvement. Thanks to the users who generously donated their databases for profiling, we’re happy to announce that, given adequate hardware (and, perhaps, a custom database index, if a dedupe rule is based on some not-indexed-by-default column), the new engine should ‘simply work’. With my laptop’s parameters (Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz, 3 GiB of RAM) and a simulated cold MySQL start, the parametrised queries (used for contact matching) took around 0.01s even for a 62k contact database. The full dedupe scan with the default fuzzy rule for individuals (first name, last name and email matching) from a cold MySQL start takes about 2.5s on a 11k contact database, 7.5s and 27s on two 18k contact databases and 68s on the 62k contact database mentioned earlier. Thanks to the results being cached, we believe the new engine is finally useful also for the larger contact databases.
Once again we invite you to try it and give us feedback on what you think.
Comments
Dedup across contact-types
Jeff Porter --> Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (www.fpwr.org)
Looks really good - great perf improvement over 2.0. Question, will you be able to dedup across contact types (e.g. Households --> Individuals) moving fwd (perhaps in 2.2?) based on this new approach?
Not sure as yet ...
We have not started thinking about whats part of 2.2 etc. I suspect a fair amount will be based on user feedback from 2.0/2.1.
Any specific use cases where cross contact type merging is needed?
lobo
Looks good
Looks great. Very speedy.
One bug -- after merging two records, it dumps you back into the site homepage instead of returning you to the list of contacts to be merged.