Almost every week folks ask whether there is a CiviCRM Book they can read to help them learn about all the cool things that CiviCRM can do. Thanks to a grant from the Information Program initiative of the Open Society Institute - we will soon have just that (a big tip of the hat to the Information Program Project Manager for making this happen!).
We will be writing the book using tools and techniques developed and hosted by Floss Manuals - whose mission is to provide quality manuals about how to use free software. Adam Hyde, the founder of the Floss Manuals project will be guiding a team of CiviCRM users, integrators and core team members through the process of creating the book during a 5-day Book Sprint to be held during the week of May 4. The team will also have editorial support from Andy Oram who is an editor for technical publisher and information provider O'Reilly Media, specializing currently in open source technologies and software engineering.
The finished book will be available as a free PDF download from the Floss Manuals site. Those who want a printed hard-copy book can purchase it for a nominal fee from the Floss Manuals store. Check out the How to Bypass Internet Censorship manual for an example of a finished product.
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Marzo 27, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM
The team has released version 2.2.1 with approximately 30 bug fixes and improvements. Notable improvements include:
Events: Provide a Drupal block which lists upcoming events
Mailings: allow users to cancel a running mail job
Contributions: re-introduce summary contribution information in search results
Pledges: support pay-later mode for pledge payments
You can review a complete list of 2.2.1 changes on the issue tracker.
Marzo 25, 2009
By fmoretto Filed under CiviCRMIn brief: CiviCRM is having a good time here in Italy, associations and NGOs are very interested into the platform and how they may use it in order to reduce expenses and improve their "performance" in fund-raising tasks and management of databases.
Marzo 25, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM, Drupal, JoomlaWe’ve just finished describing some of the new CiviEvent features we’d like to put in CiviCRM 2.3, including waitlisting and optional admin approval of participants. Please take a look at the CiviEvent - New Features for 2.3 wiki page and voice your opinions.
Marzo 24, 2009
By xavierFiled under A quick braindump:
Profile are a great way of simplifying the interface and provide more focussed forms, but some of the goodies of the normal edit form are gone. For instance, the employer isn't anymore an autocomplete field. luckily, with the REST interface and a jquery autocomplete plugin, that's a few lines to add to make it work:
add on the templates/CRM/Profile/Form/Edit.tpl
{if $session->get('userID') > 0} {literal} jQuery(document).ready(function($) {Marzo 19, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM
There are many places in CiviCRM where lists of records are presented... when you search for contacts, you get a list of contact records; when you go to manage events, you get a list of events; etc.
Kurund blogged recently about prototypes for improving usability for these record listings (we call them "selectors" internally)... and we got a lot of good feedback from that post.
Kurund and Amit on our team have now put up another iteration - which we'd love to have folks look at and comment on:
» Contact Listing
Marzo 16, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, JoomlaThe past week was quite interesting and generated a fair amount of traffic and news about CiviCRM. It compelled me to summarize and link to the various blog posts :)
Marzo 13, 2009
By chrisivens Filed under CiviCRMI think that here in the UK, we're missing out on something. Ideally I would like to have a central place to communicate and support each other with civicrm. Hopefully this will help organise meet ups and other events in the same timezone.
I have set up a provisional group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/civicrmuk/ if you could join up and start the ball rolling.
Marzo 13, 2009
By chrisivens Filed under CiviCRMI'm putting this together to help the next version of civicrm. We needed a waiting list for events once they are full. Our needs will perhaps differ from a generic version but you have to start somewhere.
We started by detecting the state of the event with eventFull(). If it's full and the user is not already a participant OR in the waitinglist table, we give them a simple link which will add them to the waitinglist table.
Marzo 12, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCase, CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla
After more than 5 months of design, development and QA - the team is thrilled to announce the release of CiviCRM 2.2 Stable. You can download the release AND / OR try it out on our public demo site.
2.2 features a number of exciting new features, including...
Personal Campaign Pages - add donors and constituents to your fundraising team
Soft Credits for contributions
CiviCase - Case management for human service providers (with thanks to Physician Health Program - British Columbia)
Simplified configuration option for CiviMail
Allow multiple custom field values for a given contact (e.g. "List the schools you attended, degrees earned and graduation dates")
Powerful new hooks for integrators and developers who need to extend and customize existing features
.... and 400+ additional improvements and bug fixes
You can find Release Highlights here.
A big round of applause is due to all the folks who downloaded, tested and submitted bug reports during the 2.2 release cycle. The alpha and beta packages were downloaded more than 4,000 times . Several hundred bugs and "improvements" were reported by community members and fixed by the team during the release cycle.
