- View your data via the contact view page.
- Edit your data in contact edit pages.
- Search for contacts using your data as keys.
- Access your data via Drupal modules or similar external code.
- Import and export data that...
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For folks downloading the latest code from the svn repository, we have branched the v1.6 code base. The main trunk is now be focussed on v1.7 development and is considered unstable. Please do an svn switch in your directory
$ svn switch http://svn.civicrm.org/branches/v1.6We will be more proactive about letting folks know about such events before they happen. We'll also be merging 0.4.1 of the dojo when its officially released (its currently in RC2)
- The quick "Contact Search" block in the left column uses a suggestive search widget which finds contacts as you type in letters. Try typing in "ada" and see what happens.
- Site Administrators no longer have to struggle with editing civicrm.settings.php to set and modify site configuration. Most settings are now controlled from the Admin Control Panel » Global Settings section.
- The contact summary screen now uses an Ajax-based tab widget to make it faster and easier to look at different types of info about a...
We have integrated Selenium Testing Tool for CiviCRM v1.6, in addition to existing UnitTests for checking api functionality.
Selenium automated tests allows user to test most of the civicrm functionality.
For more details check the documentation
We are happy to announce that our 1.6 Alpha release is now available for preview and testing on our servers. We'd like to get as many folks trying out the new features as possible over the next week. This will help us move quickly to a downloadable Beta release - which is currently scheduled for November 29.
You can login to the sandbox at:
http://sandbox.trunk.civicrm.org
User - demo
Password - demo
Highlights of the release - and things we especially like folks to try out are:
* Ajax-based suggestive search in the Contact Search box (left column)
* Dynamically loaded sections in Advanced Search and Contact View Screens
* Mouseover help in Administer Profiles, Import and other spots (look for the ? icon)
* Progress Bar during the import process
Check out the 1.6 Roadmap for a summary of new features and improvements:
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Read moreThere's been a lively discussion on the mailing list about requirements for linking CMS (Drupal / Joomla) Users to CiviCRM contacts and handling contributions from both types of contacts. We recognize that there is still work needed to handle the variety of use cases out there - but we've made decent progress in the upcoming 1.6 release:
- CMS (Drupal / Joomla) users can be "linked" to either an Individual contact (default behavior) OR and Organization contact.
- Sites will be able to provide a separate user registration link which will expose Organization profile(s) and create a user record, a new contact Organization record - and "link" them.
- Offline Contributions can be manually input OR imported for any contact type (Individual, Organization or Household)
- Online Contributions by authenticated users will be linked to the associated contact record. If the authenticated user IS an organization - the contribution will show up...
