Kick-off this year's CiviCon and learn about Web Experience Management during the plenary presentation from Holly Ross, Executive Director of the Drupal Association.
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februari 6, 2014
By lwupagano Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, TipsBecause of the way the synchronization process works with the UF_Match table, deleting records can be tricky business. If done in the incorrect order, your CiviCRM database can end up with a bunch of Junk contact records. Below is a best practice process for removing records, first the Drupal user record should be deleted then the CiviCRM record.
februari 3, 2014
By lwupagano Filed under CiviDayWe had a great event in Philadelphia. BackOffice Thinking co-hosted the night with PhillyCAM. PhillyCAM provided the space as well as the technology to live stream the event, so even those unable to be there in person, were able to participate.
januari 13, 2014
By lwupagano Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, TipsIf it’s taking too long, there is a faster way…
As I was getting ready to print our labels for this year’s Christmas cards, I first needed to add the address for about 80 of our clients in our CiviCRM. Piece of cake, right? Yes, if you take advantage of the Batch Update via Profile. Unfortunately, I was unaware of this feature, so this simple task took me a whole day to complete.
december 20, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Meetups, Tips, TrainingThe 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) is coming to Washington, DC, March 13-15. Don’t miss the opportunity to take part in the largest gathering of nonprofit professionals that put technology to use for their causes.
december 19, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under Tips
Are you performing a search or an advanced search that returns thousands and thousands of contacts from which you have to select a large number of contacts to perform different actions, such as exporting to a spreadsheet, creating mailing labels, adding them to groups, etc.?
Instead of just showing the default of 50 contacts/page, you can alter the URL on the search results pages to show more than 100 records at a time.
december 18, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Meetups, Tips
CiviDay2014 (Wed. Jan 29, 2014) will be here before you know it. Thank you to all of you that have already committed to leading a meetup on this day. As of now, we will have a CiviDay in 24 locations. Yay! That's the same amount we had last year...it would be great to see if we can see a handful more started.
oktober 16, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Community, ExtensionsOne of the most important things about any database is the integrity of its data. Is it possible that you could be overriding existing contact information with incorrect information?
