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Hi all,

For the training in london, we wanted a simple example that illustrates how to customise and improve civicrm for specific usages using the ajax interface. I'm sharing the result with you, hoping you will find it useful.

One common workflow we have is to change the status of an activity from "scheduled" to "complete". The default way is to click on edit, go to the full form, change the status, save, and go back to the list of activities

We are going to improve it with a "one click click complete": on the list of activities, we transform the status column into an action (when "scheduled"), and when I click on it, it changes it to Completed, without changing screen. For that, we are using the ajax interface and the activity api. Copy the template templates/CRM/Activity/Selector/Activity.tpl into your override directory, and add a few lines of jQuery at the top:

Following the great response from OpenCamp and the recent Dallas Drupal User group meeting, the Dallas / Fort Worth CiviCRM Meetup is a reality!

Slight change in plans - I was promising the recipe on packaging payment processors, but we'll do custom reports first. They are second in the hierarchy of complexity after custom searches, and they smoothly introduce small new concept that will be described below.

We are extending the 3.3 deadline to the 3rd of October to make one last push towards getting more of the initiatives into 3.3 and after that the focus will move to trying to get some more momentum for 3.4. Personally I would LOVE to see the dedupe exception table item get some funding. Anyone who has done deduping themselves will understand why!

Continuing the series, let's look at packaging payment processors. Before digging in the text below, make sure you're up to date with previous blog posts: on info file format and on packaging custom search.

As promised previously, here is the first recipe for creating your own CiviCRM extension. We'll start with the easy one - let's create an extension providing a custom search.

First, you obviously need to create your custom search, as described in documentation. Once you have the PHP class and the template, you can start packaging it. Let's say you will be doing an activity search. You need to prepare the info file as per description in previous blog post. Please note some details around info file has changed a bit since it was originally published - that's caused by integrating some of the feedback from blog comments. The info file structure shown that blog post has been updated and reflects the current structure.

We just completed a CiviCRM Code Sprint in NY. A big tip of the hat to Rayogram for providing the space and coordinating the logistics, especially to Kyle Jester. Thanx to Chang and Matt from emotive LLC for providing breakfast and lunch during the sprint.

As hinted in the blog post on upcoming features, CiviCRM 3.3 will ship with the first cut of database-level logging.

Last week, thanks to the invitation and sponsorship from Fundacja TechSoup, I was able to attend the Local Philanthropy Workshop organised by the Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation in the lovely town of Odorheiu Secuiesc in Transylvania.

Many folks (including me) are occassionally (or even frequently) frustrated in our ability to find answers to our CiviCRM questions. It may be: