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juli 3, 2008

Joomla CiviCRM Membership Authentication Plugin

By speleo Filed under Joomla

If you’re running a site using Joomla you’re no doubt aware that some things which appear to be straight forward with a Drupal base aren’t so easy. Both Joomla and Drupal have their strengths and weaknesses, I just happen to be a long way down the Joomla path.

A big issue for me was how do I restrict access to my site depending on memberships to a real world (non internet) organisation. All my members have an entry in the CiviCRM database but many will not have a CMS login. Out of the box there was no real way of achieving this without getting into LDAP territory.

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juni 30, 2008

A view-based approach to multi-language CiviCRM

By shotFiled under

Long time no blog – mostly because my initial concept of bringing the multi-language features to CiviCRM was replaced with a brand new approach, which should be much more developer-friendly.

Having the contents of a CiviCRM site in multiple languages means that certain columns in the database (the user-visible ones) must be localisable – but how to implement this from the database point of view is far from obvious.

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juni 30, 2008

A view-based approach to multi-language CiviCRM

By shotFiled under

Long time no blog – mostly because my initial concept of bringing the multi-language features to CiviCRM was replaced with a brand new approach, which should be much more developer-friendly.

Having the contents of a CiviCRM site in multiple languages means that certain columns in the database (the user-visible ones) must be localisable – but how to implement this from the database point of view is far from obvious.

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juni 28, 2008

CiviCRM integration with views ...

By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal
The Drupal Views module has some pretty cool functionality. Views 2 fixed the "everything is a node" concept from Views 1, this enables integration with CiviCRM (which does nothing with nodes). A concise description of Views from its project page: This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the results. CiviCRM profiles (in view/search mode) behaves like views. However it is not a flexible or configurable as views is for the end user. Integrating with views also allows the potential of integrating CiviCRM information with other Drupal specific information. e.g. Contact information on folks who are most active on your blog / forum / comments I took user.views.inc as a model and started hacking away to create civicrm.views.inc. You can get a copy of that file from our svn respository. So far its quite simple and just integrates the civicrm_contact and civicrm_email tables. I hope to add the phone/address fields in the next couple of hours/days and get a better idea of how to potentially generalize it.
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juni 25, 2008

Default Dedupe Rule Settings

By pankaj Filed under CiviCRM

We made few changes to default settings for New dedupe Now default dedupe rules settings are as follows

Fuzzy Rules for

Individual => First Name AND Last Name AND Email Organization => Organization Name OR Email Household => Household Name OR Email

Strict Rules for

Individual => Email Organization => Organization Name OR Email Household => Household Name OR Email
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juni 19, 2008

Localisation of the new menu structure

By shotFiled under

Due to the introduction of a new menu system in CiviCRM 2.1, my summer project got one more item on its list – the localisation of the menu entries.

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juni 19, 2008

Adding Pledge functionality to CiviContribute

By Dave GreenbergFiled under

Following on Lobo's recent blog post about missing features in CiviCRM - we decided to take a closer look at what it would take to get basic "Pledge" functionality added to CiviContribute (and then evaluate how soon we could take that "leap").

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juni 19, 2008

Localisation of the new menu structure

By shot Filed under Internationalization and Localization

Due to the introduction of a new menu system in CiviCRM 2.1, my summer project got one more item on its list – the localisation of the menu entries.

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juni 18, 2008

Philadelphia Boot Camp - Cancelled

By Dave Greenberg Filed under Training

Thanks to the folks who expressed interest in attending a CiviCRM Boot Camp in Philadelphia this summer. Unfortunately we didn't get a sufficient number of signups to justify the expense of running the session (given that we'd be covering airfare, housing expenses etc.) - so we are forced to cancel the session.

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juni 18, 2008

Implementing a custom ACL system in CiviCRM

By lobo Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM
From a forum post by Chris Burgess (with Green Party NZ). A related blog post is: Another approach to ACL and permissioning for hierarchical organizations Our (Drupal5+CiviCRM2.0) site needed a regional ACL implementation in order to give us the ability to easily grant access for our internal staff to contacts in their geographic region. Because we have staff at a provincial, regional and branch level, we needed to be able to configure permissions for each level. We did this by implementing code which overrides the ACL implementation in CiviCRM. I'd appreciate any input and suggestions on our methodology - it's a work in progress, but it's working well for us so far.
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