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July 26, 2007
By Torenware Filed under CiviCRM
This is Part 3 of my series on Writing Components For CiviCRM. Part 1 discussed what a component is, and what it does. Part 2 explained how to use CiviCRM's XML-based data definition language to define your tables. But while your tables may now be in place, CiviCRM doesn't know what to do with your data.
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July 15, 2007
By Torenware Filed under CiviCRM
This is Part 2 of my series on Writing Components For CiviCRM. Part 1 discussed what a component is, and what it does. The key tasks were: Define and manage a set of data base tables. Set up UI to view and edit contacts that contain its data. Make the content searchable.
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July 13, 2007
By Torenware Filed under Architecture

For the last six months, I've been working on a system called CiviVoter, which is a component of CiviCRM that manages a voter file (the kind you get from your local registrar of voters here in the US) and imports it into CiviCRM.

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