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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by
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...
by
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...
by
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...
by
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"...
by
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...
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...
by
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by
Allen Shaw of
Joinery
on April 20, 2010 - 12:02
