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szeptember 7, 2009
By lcdweb Filed under JoomlaA while back, Lobo alluded to some recent modifications that allowed Joomla and Standalone users to more easily tap into CiviCRM's hooks (issue detailed here).
szeptember 3, 2009
By JoeMurray Filed under CiviCRM, TrainingIn Toronto consultant Alan Dixon, TechSoup Canada Program Manager Jane Zhang, and Joe Murrray of JMA Consulting will be providing CiviCRM information, training, and advice to NGOs, with a bit of friendly support from Mark Surman, the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation.
szeptember 3, 2009
By michal Filed under CiviCRMAs you already know, CiviCRM is participating as a Mozilla Service Week partner. For the last few days we've been thinking about the specific shape of our contribution to this project and decided that we would like to offer consulting assistance to the community of organizations using or wanting to use CiviRM. The core team as a whole will pledge 100 hours to help organizations with CiviCRM related issues during Mozilla Service Week.
szeptember 3, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviCRMWe’re happy to announce that CiviCRM 3.0.beta2 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.
szeptember 2, 2009
Is anyone using the United States Postal Services (USPS) Address Standardization web service plugin?
CiviCRM has included a plugin for interfacing United States Postal Services (USPS) Address Standardization web service for quite a number of releases. However, the USPS rules for using the service have been a bit hard to pin down and getting authorization from is apparently hit or miss. There have been a few forum posts indicating success using the plugin with CiviCRM versions 1.8 and possibly 1.9. However, since then we've pretty much only had reports of problems related to folks enabling the feature without having a valid account etc.
August 27, 2009
By loboFiled under We've been having quite a few requests for the ability to modify and extend the types of contact records which we can be stored in CiviCRM (currently limited to Individuals, Households and Organizations). Thanx to the nice folks at Alpha International, we will be adding the ability to rename or "hide" the existing Contact Types AND define Contact Sub-types as part of CiviCRM v3.1. Here is a first draft of what we plan to implement. Your comments and feedback are appreciated.
Contact Sub-types
In v3.1 we will introduce the notion of a Contact Sub-type. This will allow users to create specific types of Contacts for their use cases. For example, a school could introduce three new sub-types: Student, Parent and Staff. Sub-Types will inherit from one of the three contact types (Individuals in this case). Sub-types will have all the properties and features of the main contact types. Thus an admin will be able to:
August 26, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviCRMWe’re happy to announce that CiviCRM 3.0.beta1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.
Check out the blog entry announcing 3.0.alpha1 release for a run-down of what’s new in CiviCRM 3.0, and this list for issues that were fixed since 3.0.alpha3. A full list of changes, improvements and bug fixes in 3.0 release is also available on the wiki and in the issue tracker.
August 21, 2009
By lobo Filed under Drupal, SchoolsI continue my work on deploying CiviCRM for my kids school. In previous blog posts i documented how to use hooks and custom templates to schedule parent teacher conferences and extended care activities and how to expose relationship information in a profile view. In this blog post I'll describe some more advanced features. I'll also describe the code and directory structure.
New Code Structure and Directory Layout
August 20, 2009
By dharmatech Filed under CiviContribute, CiviCRM, Finance and AccountingAbout 8 weeks ago we began looking into a CiviCRM / QuickBooks integration framework. Our goal is to write a module that allows CiviCRM contributions and contact information to be written to QuickBooks. Our target version is QuickBooks 2009 Premier Non-Profit edition, since that's what we use.
At the very least, the module should be able to:
