The Entity Construction Kit (ECK) is a non-code solution to creating custom entities in CiviCRM. After an impressive development journey, we are happy to announce that the beta version of the extension just dropped!
What’s new?
Since version 1.1.0-beta1 ECK comes with some solid improvements:
- Support for exporting entities from created EntityTypes (thanks, @mattwire!)
- Support for multi-record custom groups (thanks, @colemanw!)
- SearchKit displays for subtypes and custom fields (thanks, @colemanw!)
- Support for subtypes being optional per entity type (thanks, @colemanw!)
Additionally, Core now has the ability to import any entity using the civi-import core extension, which includes ECK entities - see this issue for more information.
Also, ECK now implements the Entity Framework v2 which shouldn't affect the user experience of the extension, but greatly improves developer experience – thanks @colemanw!
Feedback wanted
From A as in „Anything really“ to Z as in „Zoo“, the Entity Construction Kit makes it incredibly easy to tailor CiviCRM to all „entity management“ use cases.
So go ahead and give it a test run: This is a beta, so installation is not possible from the in-app extension directory yet, but you can download it directly from the repository.
We are looking forward to your feedback, especially for the newly developed features.
