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By jackrabbithanna Filed under Development Tools, Drupal 7, Extensions, Release announcements

CiviCRM Entity 2.0-beta7 has been released.

Pick it up now at the Drupal.org Project Page

Changes since beta6:

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By jackrabbithanna Filed under Architecture, Drupal 7

There are two powerful modules used in the Drupal world for creating fast custom searches. Search API is a framework which provides an interface for site builders to create custom searches on any entity known to Drupal. It supports several search backends, including Apache Solr and native database search.

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By jackrabbithanna Filed under Architecture, Drupal 7, Interface and design

It's becoming a common request from our clients to find user-friendly ways to integrate CiviCRM data with the rest of their Drupal website functionality. Oftentimes content creators without direct user access to CiviCRM need to do simple things, such as create, update, and delete contacts in simple, specific ways. 

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By jackrabbithanna Filed under Architecture, Drupal 7, Make it happen

CiviCRM Entity is a Drupal module which greatly enhances CiviCRM integration with Drupal. This module exposes many CiviCRM entities as true Drupal entities. That means that almost any module can use Drupal entities. As a result, these modules can access and manipulate CiviCRM data directly from within Drupal via Drupal’s Entity API.

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