The next NOSI/NTEN webinar will be on CiviCRM. The event is scheduled for April 29th, 11:00 am Pacific time. We'll be up bright and early and host this event from Nelson, NZ. We will give an overview of CiviCRM, examples of its use, and have lots of time for questions. Register on the NTEN Site. More details about the agenda can be found here.
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April 24, 2008
By shot Filed under CiviCRMAs hinted previously, I’ve been working on dedupe improvements for CiviCRM 2.1. The first thing I wanted to handle is to move as much of the dedupe search from the PHP code to the database side.
I created a wiki page describing the plan; it would be great if any interested parties gave it a read and commented. Thanks!
April 23, 2008
By shotFiled under CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management system used by NGOs and advocacy groups (like Amnesty International, Wikimedia Foundation or the Joomla!
April 22, 2008
By shot Filed under Internationalization and LocalizationCiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management system used by NGOs and advocacy groups (like Amnesty International, Wikimedia Foundation or the Joomla! and Drupal projects) all over the world. Judging by the number of community-contributed and -maintained translations and civicrm.org statistics, CiviCRM installations exist in over twenty languages using various alphabets (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese).
April 22, 2008
By xurizaemon Filed under TrainingSunday 20th and Monday 21st April was CiviCRM Bootcamp in Melbourne - an excellent couple of days of training, discussion, and discovery.
April 22, 2008
By shot Filed under CiviCRM, JoomlaThanks to the wonderful people from Joomla! who took us under their Google Summer of Code umbrella and personal commitment from Wes Morgan, of Environment America (who will be mentoring on CiviCRM’s behalf), we’re very, very happy to announce that we have two student projects funded by Google this year!
April 18, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla
Drupal 6 introduced a new menu system. CiviCRM had modeled its menu system after drupal 4.x which meant we needed to upgrade the menu code significantly to upgrade CiviCRM to Drupal 6. We took the opportunity to learn and understand more from drupal's new system and also simplify the interface between CiviCRM and Drupal with regard to the menu hook.
The CiviCRM menu system has been based on the Drupal menu system, so all credit for the below goes to chx and the Drupal folks (all blame should be assigned to us). We have simplified and extended it a bit to meet our needs. Similar to Drupal menu system, the CiviCRM menu data now resides in the database. civicrm_menu stores all the information for a menu item.
April 14, 2008
By Dave GreenbergFiled under
Brian Shaughnessy is working on some layout improvements for a client - which may potentially result in some core code contributions. He posted this question on the forums today:
I notice there's some inconsistencies regarding how some of the forms are laid out. Specifically, I'm running into forms that use a mix of table/tr/td tags with dl/dt/dd tags to layout the form labels and fields. This makes it more difficult to have consistency laying out the page using css, because those tags are structured differently.
My personal preference is to use table tags exclusively. Because of the built-in structure of dl/dt/dd tags, I find them hard to layout on a consistent and growable/shrinkable manner. I know that in a strict-css-world we shouldn't use table tags for layout, but for a long list of form labels and fields, many of which have option contingencies, tables seem like the most logical way to handle layout.
Since this is an issue we've struggled with, and because we're looking at changes to some key screens and forms to improve usability - I'm posting my response here as a blog. Hopefully we'll grab a few more eyeballs and get some useful input from folks with expertise in this area...
