I believe that you start taking advantage of CiviCRM when you start thinking that your needs are not only yours. At the CiviCRM Community, that's the general attitude. If one has a problem, one looks for a general solution that can also be useful to others. Everybody benefits from everybody’s contributions, inspiring philosophy, isn't it?
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Are you performing a search or an advanced search that returns thousands and thousands of contacts from which you have to select a large number of contacts to perform different actions, such as exporting to a spreadsheet, creating mailing labels, adding them to groups, etc.?
Instead of just showing the default of 50 contacts/page, you can alter the URL on the search results pages to show more than 100 records at a time.
CiviDay2014 (Wed. Jan 29, 2014) will be here before you know it. Thank you to all of you that have already committed to leading a meetup on this day. As of now, we will have a CiviDay in 24 locations. Yay! That's the same amount we had last year...it would be great to see if we can see a handful more started.
Despite having enough on their plate with a few billion kids worth of presents to build, and with Rudolfs unfortunate flu (well why else would he have a red nose?), Santa's little elves over in the UK have been working hard to also bring you a brand new CiviCRM extension/module - CiviBooking! Having now been extensively tested for sleigh management purposes we're really pleased to announce the first stable release available now from the extensions directory.
Pogstone has created a new custom search that should help anyone dealing with events, pricesets and/or custom participant data. This search has the following features:
- you can filter/view individual priceset options. (Such as search on participants who registered for a certain priceset session.)
- Choice of 3 layouts: one row per participant, or one row per line item, or summary totals for each line item option.
A few of us have started exploring how we can integrate Doctrine into future versions of CiviCRM. A large part of this work was initiated by Peter Haight from Giant Rabbit who explained his thinking and approach in this blog post on Persistence Refactoring. One of our goals for the next few releases of CiviCRM is to improve the technology backbone that Civi is based on. It made sense to most of us to start from the database layer and then move outwards and using doctrine and working with peter seemed a good logical next step.
We decided to spend 3 weeks (till mid january) on various exploratory sprints and try and answer a few questions and see how things are done in the doctrine/symfony world of things. We also decided to start adopting more scrum - like technques and iterate on a weekly basis. Our goal is to come up with a list of things that we are curious about going forward and work on some potential answers during the week. So without further ado, here are some of the things that we decided to investigate and research this week:
Reviewed version: 1.4
Link https://civicrm.org/extensions/offline-recurring-payment
Introduction
Reviewed version: 1.4
Link: https://civicrm.org/extensions/google-apps-sync
Documentation *
My score is 1 star. It is clear what this extension should do. But that is also where the documentation ends. There is no installation/configuration instruction.
Functionality ***
At Green Renters we have tried to incorporate as much of what we do into CiviCRM as possible, we figured that there was no point having a central repository of how everyone engages with our organisation if the information wasn't complete, so we sought to consolidate as much of what we do into CiviCRM as possible. This is a post explaining how we incorporated and integrated project management and accounting into our CiviCRM.
