Blogues

76 days until CiviCon 2014 and this volunteer-organized event needs you!  Yes you. Specifically you! We are looking for session proposals, such as: 

As many of you know Drupal South is on next week in Wellywood. We don't have a big community down under but we are certainly keen to make you feel welcome in NZ

We will be running BOFs over the weekend & catching up for dinner on the Thursday night.

https://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=419

If you are still around on the Monday & Tuesday we might look at a mini sprint. Drop us a line & say hello!

There has just been a security advisory for CiviCRM. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following newly released versions:

Because of the way the synchronization process works with the UF_Match table, deleting records can be tricky business.   If done in the incorrect order, your CiviCRM database can end up with a bunch of Junk contact records.  Below is a best practice process for removing records, first the Drupal user record should be deleted then the CiviCRM record.

We had a great time in Dallas, Texas during CiviDay 2014.  We want to give special thanks to Improving Enterprises for continued use of their facility and Skvare for being the long-term organizer of the group.

We are reviewing the extension Relationship Permissions as ACLs, which has been made available by Eileen McNaughton from Fuzion (http://fuzion.co.nz/). Kudos to Eileen and Fuzion for sharing the extension!

The extension sets permissions for contacts based on the relations permission.It is a bit complicated......did we get it correctly Eileen?

This time we had a look at the Extended Mailing Stats extensions, that was contributed by Andrew MacNaughty. The extension is used by the Australian Greens (http://greens.au.org). More information on the extension can be found on https://civicrm.org/extensions/extended-mailing-stats.

Now that the holidays are behind us, I wanted to share some of the exciting developments brewing in Civi-world for 2014.

Folks on the core team engaged with our partners recently in a spirited conversation about an updated mission statement for the project. We went through several iterations to come up with something broad enough to help with setting direction - but specific enough to be meaningful.  We'd love to get your comments and incorporate them into a final version ...

Our organization has been using (and loving) CiviCRM for almost a year now, but we initially had issues getting the membership history to easily capture the full range of detail needed.  Our members often lapse from year to year, and because Civi’s natural process is to renew a single membership record instead of creating multiple, this caused us some problems.  When discussing our experience and solution at various events, we found there was a lot of interest, so the purpose of thi