Three new extensions were approved this week for in-app installation, thanks to the generosity of extension developers and the hard work of volunteer reviewers.
The CiviCRM Extensions Directory is...
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Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on July 11, 2019 - 13:36
The CiviCRM extension system has come a long way since its inclusion in version 3.3. There are currently over 250 extensions published in the Extensions Directory at civicrm.org, and scores more in...
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Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on December 23, 2016 - 10:56
CiviCRM provides a "current employer" field for all individual contacts, and that field does some cool stuff. Namely, when you type an organization name into this field and save the record...
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Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on April 4, 2016 - 12:34
A member sends several separate payments to cover outstanding dues on a single purchase, like an expensive membership or a table at an event. How are you going to record this?
A conference...
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Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on March 12, 2012 - 07:37
A couple of weeks back I wrote here some thoughts about letting users manage and modify their own private collection of reports without actually having site-wide "administer reports"...
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Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on January 9, 2012 - 10:02
A client of mine at NS Web Solutions is looking to solve a problem involving the way their users need to handle reports. I think this might be common enough to be relevant for others, so here's a...
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by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on December 19, 2011 - 11:07
At NS Web Solutions, we recently got a chance to work on a cool project for one of Pogstone's clients. Thanks to this client's generosity, we expect soon to release a Drupal module which...
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Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on September 13, 2011 - 11:56
Note: You can see videos of these features in action on NS Web Solutions' case study page for this project.
Update: Some of the code for these features is available on GitHub. See my comment...
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by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on April 28, 2011 - 21:37
This has come up a couple of times before. According to my chat with Lobo today, not much is happening on this front. Since our client at Two Mice and a Strawberry has a need for this, we're...
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by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on October 25, 2010 - 14:04
At Two Mice and a Strawberry, a client has asked for some customization of the Notes features for Contacts. It happens that these features may also be useful for other objects that use Notes, but at...
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by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on September 6, 2010 - 09:17
As of now (version 3.1.5), CiviCRM limits finding and merging of duplicate records to users with the "Administer CiviCRM" permission. A recent thread on the forums points out that some organizations...
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by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on June 2, 2010 - 15:01
Originally posted at TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com.
I recently had to modify CiviCRM to support a specific use case for a client. In this project I needed to allow the user to enter anything in the...
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by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on April 20, 2010 - 12:02