Blogues

A few months Back John Derry from The Monthly Magazine wrote a blog about how they were planning to use CiviCRM for magazine subscriptions.

We (nfpservices) have been invited by The Institute of Fundraising Technology Group to provide a joint presentation on how we have implemented CiviCRM for their initial requirements in terms of handling contacts, membership and events and will be working with them on other elements in the future as well.

It's been quite a while since my last CiviMobile update but that's not to say that I haven't been busy :)

The team is excited to announce the release of 4.2 stable with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 2.5 and WordPress 3.3.

You can download the release from SourceForge, and you can also test drive the release on each platform using the public demos:

At our last big sprint there was some good discussion about ways to clarify the filtering conventions used on many of the search forms. One specific area that seemed to need "help" is the set of checkboxes for filtering on Pay Later, Recurring and Test contributions. Here's the current version of that section of the form:

GiftAid has been ported to a Civi Extension for 4.2, so that it can be used in CiviCRM irrespective of the CMS. The extension has been tested in Drupal 7, Joomla and Wordpress. Hope it will make especially Joomla folks happy, as there were requests in the forum about porting the module as a Joomla Plugin.

Latest improvements include

Join the next meeting of the Dallas / Fort Worth CiviCRM Meetup group on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM - just on the heels of Dallas Drupal Days, so we expect increased attendance. We meet every send Tuesday at Improving Enterprises in Addison.  

The team is excited to announce the fifth and probably final beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

If you are a Joomla+CiviCRM user or implementer in the New York City region, you may be interested in some upcoming sessions at JoomlaDay NYC, September 22-23. Details are here: http://www.joomladaynyc.com/

On Saturday I'll be leading an Intro to CiviCRM session that will provide an overview of CiviCRM functionality and touch on some key administrator/implementer considerations.

On Sunday we'll do a developer session that covers implementing CiviCRM hooks through Joomla plugins, PHP/tpl override directories, and an introduction to the API.

If anyone from the CiviCRM community is considering attending and has specific things they'd like to see covered, please comment through this blog and I'll see if I can work it in.

The team is excited to announce the fourth beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.