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Junio 10, 2007
By lobo Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM

Based on some conversations on IRC with Marshall from Ideal Solutions LLC, I embarked on extending CiviCRM to allow different payment processors for different contribution/member/event pages. Our current restriction of just one payment processor for the entire system did not feel right and we had a few requests to extend this functionality. I took this opportunity to review parts of the code base that I was not familiar with and make a few improvements to CiviCRM in the process.

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Junio 6, 2007
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM

The entire team has been focused on getting the 1.8 open issues queue down to (almost) zero items by next week - which is our target for code freeze. As of this morning, we're down to 18 open issues - of which several larger items are just about ready for our QA cycle.

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May 31, 2007
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

One of the main features of CiviCRM 1.8 is the ability to find duplicate contacts and merge them. The relevant spec of phase one is on our wiki, and in this post I’d like to quickly describe the merge screen.

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May 28, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM

One of the requested features in the recent past has been the ability to hide certain sections of various forms at the site level and the ability to modify this at a user level. I committed code that does this at the site level earlier this week. The issue is described as Site and User Level UI Configuration options (phase 1) in our issue tracker.

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May 25, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM

Here in CiviCRM land we are hard at work making progress with v1.8. We are knocking off a fair number of issues from the issue queue on a weekly basis. You can check the current open issue list here and the v1.8 feature set here.

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May 21, 2007
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM
I had the privilege of joining a spirited and diverse group of about 100 Joomla! users and developers from places near and far at last weekend's JoomlaDays West "un-conference". The conference was held at Google's "campus" in Mountain View - and was a "sold-out" event with all available spaces taken shortly after the conference was announced.
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May 15, 2007
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM
An excellent question was posted on the forum yesterday about how to modify a CiviCRM Profile screen. This prompted me to finally put together some documentation on the cool "customized templates" feature that was added in 1.7. Customizing CiviCRM Screens
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May 9, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviMail, CiviCRM

Earlier today Fen Labalme from CivicActions sent an email to the dev list regarding CiviMail performance and the not-so-great number that they've seen on their servers. His complete email and the thread is here.

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May 8, 2007
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM

Those of you who've been using CiviCRM for a while and/or following the progress of the project already know that there's never a dull moment around here. It's only a few days after the release of 1.7 stable - and we're well into work on the NEXT release (1.8).

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May 2, 2007
By loboFiled under

We are pleased to announce that CiviCRM 1.7 stable is now available for download.

CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalised, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

New to CiviCRM? Read more at http://civicrm.org/

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