The American Friends Service Committee, where I work, needs to sync some information between our CMS (which isn’t Drupal or Joomla for various reasons) and CiviCRM. The vendor we’re working with is writing custom additions to the CMS to handle our needs, and part of that process is creating a PHP library to connect to the REST API of CiviCRM. When we asked, the vendor was very willing to open source that library.
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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.
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 EmailStrict Rules for
Individual => Email Organization => Organization Name OR Email Household => Household Name OR EmailGreetings everyone,
My name is Jon and you'll be seeing quite a bit of me this summer. I was accepted into Google's Summer of Code and I'll be working with CiviCRM. My proposal, titled "CiviCRM: Aesthetics and Usability" is available at the above link (on the CiviCRM wiki).
Who am I? I am 29 years old and live in the Seattle, WA area. I am finishing coursework in Software Testing currently. I am very excited to be part of the CiviCRM team.
Here's a description I first wrote a few months ago when I was tossing back and forth ideas to build this kind of system in a different context. I've adapted it a bit to suit the current terminology. I originally posted it in the forum, which is where I'd invite you to put your comments.
A case management system is basically a big table of activities, which come from various sources. The sources might include:
humans entering them into a web form
Earlier today I had the pleasure of presenting and demonstrating CiviCRM to about 40 people working in the non-profit sector at Connecting Up 2008 (see http://www.connectingup.org)
This year's conference had a strong focus on the use of social media, and today's keynote speaker was Beth Kanter, who is well known as a trainer, blogger and consultant on how non-profits can make best use of social media (http://beth.typepad.com).
Almost 10 days have passed since the Melbourne Developer Boot Camp, but the feeling of being part of an enthusiastic and growing community of CiviCRMers "down under" is still strong.
Notes from the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference, New Orleans, March 19-21, 2008
Notes from the CiviCRM affinity group meeting and the CiviCRM lunch table discussion have links on the bottom of the page http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Presentations. Both meetings were very productive.
Day 1: Technically, day 1 was a fabulous dinner hosted by CiviCRM at Herbsaint in the warehouse district of New Orleans. This is Susan Spicer's restaurant, and it was delicious -- they even made the vegetarian (me) a special-not-on-the-menu meal! We took this time to get to know each other and talk a bit about CiviCRM, what we liked/disliked, and the development community in general.
If you've implemented CiviCRM, please consider adding a case study to http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Case+Studies or the forums at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,4.0.html. It would be great if you could include detailed descriptions of the implementation (custom fields used, profiles, special menus created for tasks) as well as obstacles, work-arounds, "results".
