In 1.7, event management was added to CiviCRM. The timing on this was good for us (Ideal Solution, LLC), and allowed us to use CiviCRM for a customer who primarily wanted to allow members to sign up for events, such as conferences. The difficulty was that conferences typically have multiple options, each with its own additional price: basic registration, meals, guests, etc. Each additional option increases the total number of possible combinations. Price Sets were added to manage this.
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Our friends at US PIRG have just started work on the Code for Change program. You can follow their progress on the Code for Change blog. We will be working closely with Wes, Dan, Matt and Ann and hope to get many new improvements and extensions to CiviCRM via this program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
