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October 28, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.2.4 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site.

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October 25, 2010
By JoeMurray Filed under Drupal, Extensions

Check out the PowerPoint presentation for a review of Drupal modules for CiviCRM http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/download/attachments/33129543/Drupal+Modules+for+CiviCRM+Drupal+Camp+Toronto+2010.ppt?version=1&modificationDate=1288060322608.

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October 25, 2010
By AllenShaw Filed under CiviReport

This has come up a couple of times before. According to my chat with Lobo today, not much is happening on this front. Since our client at Two Mice and a Strawberry has a need for this, we're diving in head first this week. Hopefully we'll have something that's worth contributing to core. Please comment below if you have any thoughts on the ideas presented here.

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October 24, 2010
By colemanw Filed under CiviCase, Drupal, Extensions, Schools
A few months ago as our organization was just starting to use CiviCRM, Dave Greenberg recommended that we look at CiviCase as a solution for our admissions team to keep track of prospective students. As a collection of activities associated with a client, CiviCase looked like a great way to record our interactions with potential students as we made initial contact, followed up, received communication from them, sent more info, and then accepted their applications. From a DB point of view, yes, it is a nearly perfect way to store that information. But from a UI point of view, we had a long way to go before our admissions team would be able to painlessly get the data in, work with and update it once it was there, and then be able to get it back out in the form of reports. Here's what we did to make that happen (and more!):
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October 20, 2010
By derek Filed under Meetups

This past Monday, the 18th of October 2010, a group of about 10 people gathered for Toronto's fifth ever CiviCRM Users' Group Meetup. The turnout was up significantly from last month, and we look forward to growing the local community even more. In future, we'll make sure to post clear and detailed directions to the location to ensure everyone who wants to come can find us!

 

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October 20, 2010
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCRM

Great news for CivICRM users in the UK. CiviCRM now comes with 'out of the box' support for Gift Aid.  The code is freely available for download, installation (instructions here) and use on your site.

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October 19, 2010
By michal Filed under CiviCampaign, Drupal, Joomla

It's 3.3.alpha1 time! After a couple months of work, it's finally time to push out all those new cool features out! Before jumping directly on downloads (yeah, we know you can't wait!), we strongly recommend going through 3.3 highlights post, where you will find out what's new and hot in this release.

If you want to experience 3.3.alpha1, it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.

 

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October 18, 2010
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

As we are getting ready to roll out the first alpha for CiviCRM v3.3, I figured a status update on some of the cool new features of 3.3 was in order. So without further ado, here are some of the cool new features that are part of 3.3

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October 15, 2010
By kurund Filed under CiviCRM

As a part of 3.3 release we will be deprecating all v1 api's and if you are still use them, it's a good time to migrate to v2 api's before upgrading to CiviCRM v3.3 release.

 

CiviCRM api v2 were introduced in v2.0. For every v1 api there is equivalent v2 api.

 

Reason for removing v1 api's:

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October 13, 2010
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Documentation

A quick look the book CiviCRM a comprehensive guide: how we got here, and our plans for the future

 

We recently got fifty copies of CiviCRM: a comprehensive guide printed on demand for some training events in the UK.  Being able to hand out a 300 page book as a supplement to the training went down really well with participants: holding something in your hands in a world which is predominantly online world is quite reassuring, it seems!

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