Blog posts by Eileen

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Dicembre 27, 2023
By Eileen Filed under Architecture
5.69 (due for release on 3 Jan) will be the last release that supports PHP7.3
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Dicembre 2, 2022
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A while back I did a lot of cleanup and bug fixing on the Core Import code. This clean-up facilitated some extra features to be added in a core extension - ‘civi-import’ which is in 5.55. In addition Greenpeace Germany sponsored improvements to CiviCRM to support background queuing and in 5.57 ‘civi-import’ can leverage that. I’m going to describe some of the enhancements in civi-import in this blog based on the 5.57 code base (not all are in 5.55). 

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Dicembre 18, 2021
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CiviCheer

Join us for a timezone-appropriate drink next week!

This is just gonna be a fairly impromptu catch up to shoot the breeze and acknowledge the seasons festitivies. Silly hats, Christmas sweaters = optional. We would love to see you there!

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Ottobre 15, 2021
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In the upcoming 5.43 release significant changes have been made to the code that handles token rendering. The primary goal was to fix technical debt issues that were tying us in knots and holding us back. However some new usability features are also included in 5.43

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Agosto 2, 2021
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Searching Payments in Civi

In the deep dark past, when CiviCRM was first written, it was assumed that one ‘Order’ (Contribution) could only have one payment. How wrong that was! However, it’s an assumption that plagues us to this day, despite much work having been done to remedy it.

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Aprile 22, 2021
By Eileen Filed under SearchKit

The duper extension provides a bunch of tools to help with deduping. In this blog I’m going to describe a way that I am now using search kit in the deduper to help make one of those tools more useful.

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Ottobre 12, 2020
By Eileen Filed under Interface and design

Prepare for CiviCRM 5.31 now - changes could affect customisations

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Ottobre 2, 2020
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For the past few weeks I have been sending a dev digest to the dev-civicrm mailing list at the end of each week (subscribe here). The dev digest is a mix of what's being worked on, what proposals people are looking for input on, what we need review or help with, or just whatever bubbles to the top.

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Agosto 30, 2020
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Deduper extension release 1.4

Release 1.4 of the deduper extension is now released. This contains a number of additional resolvers that the Wikimedia Foundations uses to enable more duplicate contacts to be merged without manual intervention.

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