Blog posts by kurund

In the past many users have expressed their interest to use CiviCRM for a survey. Obvious choice for this, is to use CiviCRM profile. For this you will have to create multiple profiles with your survey questions and configure it to redirect user to next profile when one profile is saved. This behaves like a survey wizard. But if you have lot of questions / steps you will have to create that many number of profiles, which might be difficult to manage/setup survey.

The fifth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. This release includes some security fixes so if you are already on 3.1 we would recommend upgrade. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)

The fourth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)

Since the addition of the CiviReport component, we were thinking it would great if users could expose their reports on the CiviCRM Dashboard screen. Hence we decided it's time to redesign the CiviCRM Dashboard ('Home' page). Now it has a 2 column layout with the ability to add reports as 'dashlets'. We think this will be a significant usability improvement, and we've added it to upcoming v3.1 release. This feature will be available for download as part of the next v3.1 beta release.  

The team has released version 3.0.2 today. This release includes a critical fix for Group Functionality, and 30+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.0.1 or v3.0.0 upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

We have branched SVN repository for v3.0 after CiviCRM v3.0 beta4 release. So people who are running v3.0 via subversion checkout, will have to switch to v3.0 branch. You can either do separate checkout for v3.0 branch svn checkout http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v3.0 v3.0 OR Switch existing svn copy to branch svn switch http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v3.0 We will also be adding v3.0 for translatio

The team has released version 2.2.6 with approximately 35 bug fixes and improvements. Notable fixes and improvements include: More CiviCRM - Views2 integration/fixes Renew Membership fixes ( CRM-4555,CRM-4556 ) You can review a complete list of 2.2.6 changes on the issue tracker.   Download You can download CiviCRM 2.2.6 at our download page. Select from the civicrm-stable section. The filenames include the 2.2.6 label: civicrm-2.2.…. Be sure and download the correct version for your CMS (Drupal / Joomla! / Standalone).  

This release has been superceded by release 2.2.5 due to a critical bug in the Event Registration process. If you have downloaded this release, please replace it with 2.2.5.

  The team has released version 2.2.4 with approximately 30 bug fixes and improvements. Notable fixes and improvements include: Discount Support for Online Event Registration using hooks (more) Enable Joomla / Standalone to use the mighty power of hooks You can review a complete list of 2.2.4 changes on the issue tracker.

As we focus on usability improvements for the 2.3 release, we are looking at ways to use screen space more efficiently AND ways to streamline commonly used workflows. With these goals in mind, we'd like folks to take a look at two newly implemented features in the 2.3 sandbox - a new shortcuts dropdown menu, and a streamlined workflow for entering offline contributions.