We had a lively meetup on Tuesday at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Francisco. There was pretty cool mix of organizations represented:
board member and director from a "start-up" independent middle school looking to use CiviCRM and Drupal to support their vision of student - teacher - administration - parent collaboration
IT folks from an association of psychoanalysts - looking to implement CiviCRM and Drupal for fund-raising and events
two new developers from Wikimedia Foundation - looking towards making CiviCRM a more effective tool for their users
The focus of the meeting was review and Q/A on the upcoming 3.2 release. I walked through a slideshow of highlights - and we took frequent detours to my sandbox to dig deeper into features when folks had questions. I've been thinking that we've taken some big steps in usability and "polish" in 3.2 - and the reactions during the meetup reinforced this.
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July 23, 2010
By Anonymous Filed under MeetupsWere you thinking of attending the Mumbai CiviCRM Meet up - July 2010 last Thursday in India or wondering what exactly is shared, discussed, explained, who attended ?…
July 22, 2010
By deepak.srivastava Filed under Architecture, Drupal, SchoolsA school needed an online admission application process to be developed and integrated with CiviSchool. The application form is a different workflow from the online family forms. Web Access helped convert this idea to working application as part of the CiviSchool Project. I have been working with Web Access on this project and we have completed most of it. Now seemed to be a good time to let everyone know about what we have done so far. Here is how the admission workflow is -
Parent account setup :
A parent goes to the school site and uses a civicrm registration profile to create an account and enters the site. The account automatically gets assigned a "Applicant Parent" subtype.
Filling admission application forms :
From the dashboard parent fills admission application forms for an applicant (child). Parent can apply for 1 or more applicants. All applicants are assigned a "Applicant" subtype.
Submitting a payment :
Depending on whether financial aid is taken or not, parent submits a payment for an applicant. The payment is done via contribution page with contribution type - "Application Fee". Since parent is the one making the payment, to keep track of which applicant the payment is being done for, an extra argument is passed to the payment/contribution url. We using a hook to make all the checks and link the payment to the applicant.
Scheduling appointments :
Once the application is complete and payment is made (if needed), parent can schedule a child visit or a parent interview. A school tour could be booked at any stage of the process.
July 21, 2010
By michalFiled under This week we're releasing CiviCRM 3.1.6 and 3.2.beta5 - they are both regular bugfix releases, however, they also bring a fix to recently discovered security vulnerability, which in specific conditions allows an unauthorized person to access some CiviCRM functionality. Please make sure you upgrade your production installations running 3.1.5 and earlier to 3.1.6 to avoid the risk.
For 3.1.6 upgrade instructions check: Drupal Upgrade, Joomla! Upgrade and Standalone Upgrade instructions. Make sure not to confuse 3.1 (which is stable version) with 3.2 (which is still beta) when downloading the upgrade bundle - even though it's already quite solid, you don't want to end up with beta release on your production site. :-)July 17, 2010
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviCRMI have created 2 custom searches at that I find useful for finding upcoming birthdays and wedding anniversaries. Hopefully these are useful for other folks too.
The new searches can be downloaded from: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/x/WgDvAQ
July 15, 2010
By michalFiled under Here we are with the fourth BETA release of version 3.2 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites, even though we're getting closer to stable.
This release includes several major new features/highlights:
July 9, 2010
By ctashian Filed under CiviMailSendgrid is a relatively new cloud-based service that takes care of mailing list SMTP delivery and attempts to get the highest possible deliverability rate. We didn't want to have to manage our own SMTP server here at the Participatory Politics Foundation, so when we migrated to CiviCRM recently, we decided to take the sendgrid route for SMTP.
July 9, 2010
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Meetups, TrainingFollowing on from our training camps last summer, we are very pleased to announce another two training events in London this September/October. The first is aimed at users and administrators, and the second is aimed at integrators, implementors and developers.
We'll have folks from around CiviLand joining us for these trainings (Archduke Lobo, Grand High Wizard Dave Greenberg, and more) so you'll be learning from the experts.
July 7, 2010
By michalFiled under Here we are with the third BETA release of version 3.2 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites, even though we're getting closer to stable.
Important message for translators: beta3 is a string freeze release - which means, you can safely start your 3.2 translation work - not too many new strings and/or string changes should show up to mess with your work. For more details, please refer to previous release announcement.
Now following with information about 3.2beta3: this release includes several major new features/highlights:
July 6, 2010
By epari.siva Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM, DrupalUPDATE: Dec 17, 2010
dharmatech has contributed a similar module to drupal.
d.o. page: http://drupal.org/project/civievent_discount
civi blog: http://civicrm.org/blogs/dharmatech/add-coupons-events-module
great job dharmatech!
