Last Thursday we had a developer meeting aimed at organisations and individuals developing with CiviCRM in the UK. Nine of us made it out. I'll try and give a flavour of the participants...
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February 3, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under Architecture
Do you wish you could configure custom fields to store Employment History, Educational Background, Volunteer Skills or other types of information where you may need to enter multiple sets of values for a contact? Starting with CiviCRM 2.2, you can do just that.
For example, if you need to collect Employment History - you might have fields for Job Title, Start Date, End Date, and Reason for Leaving. Enabling the "multiple records" setting in that custom data group will allow you to enter that information for multiple jobs. You can also set the maximum number of records which can be recorded per contact (you might only want data for the three most recent jobs).
January 30, 2009
By chrisivens Filed under CiviCRMI've been working for the past few months with CiviCRM and despite the differences which came as a bit of a culture-shock to me, I've cobbled together a few ideas for things that perhaps could be considered for future versions.
Please bear in mind that these are simply things that I have had to add myself for a live contract and in no way reflects poorly on the CiviCRM system as it stands. On the contrary, I think the fundamental aspects of CiviCRM offer an easy way to add crm functionality to your site.
January 30, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, JoomlaUPDATE: Please use the v2.2 beta downloads. The below version is now obsolete
In conjunction with some awesome folks in the Joomla core team and Elin Waring (mcsmom), we've restructured the CiviCRM install process for J! 1.5.9 in the hope of increasing the install success rate on shared hosting. There are changes to the front end (contributed by Elin) to simplify menu creation.
January 29, 2009
By chrisivens Filed under CiviCRMI'm hoping by posting this I can get a feel for how useful a Sage plugin and associated module for CiviCRM would be. We have a client that needs to have transactions from the various portions of CiviCRM that tend money to be recorded in their accounting package. I personally think it would be a great addition and being a client requirement, it has been factored into the costs.
There are several considerations as to how to approach this, I have thought of a good few ways of achieving the goal but I’d like if I may to ask for a little help fleshing out the details.
January 29, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCase, CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla, Training
Introduction to CiviCase
Claire Sauve from Physician Health Program will be joining me in presenting an introduction to our new CiviCase component. The session will be an online web conference with phone dial-in, so participants can discuss interests and questions. No pre-registration is required - but drop me an email if you're planning on attending - dave at civicrm dot org.
When: Wednesday, February 4 at 11:00am PST
Toll Free Dial-in (U.S. & Canada): 1-866-740-1260
International Dial-in: click here for listings
Participant Access Code: 8467471
Web Conference URL: https://www1.callinfo.com/prt?host=readytalk&an=8667401260&ac=8467471
Depending on participant interest, topics will include:
January 28, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMEarlier today we had a conference call with a few consulting firms and individuals who integrate and deploy CiviCRM for clients. There were approximately 15 folks in the room. The agenda and quite a few comments are documented on this wiki page.
January 27, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMSome links to recent blog posts about CiviCRM. We've also started tweeting about CiviCRM. You can follow us here
January 26, 2009
By xavier Filed under CiviCRMHi,
As you know, CiviCRM collects informations about the installations, like numbers of contacts, what modules are used.
I'm wondering if you would find useful to have more statistics in a new reporting screen on your installation (beside the numbers of records, knowing how many are tagged, have a postal address, have a phone, have relationships...).
January 23, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, JoomlaI spent some time analyzing data that we've been collecting over the past few months. In v2.1 we added a ping back feature which lets us know what component folks are using and the size of some of the tables (which gives us an estimate of the size of the site etc). All information is hashed and we do not record any IP addresses. Details of what we collect are in a prior blog post
