There are three ways one can customize the look of CiviCRM pages:
Customizing CiviCRM templates
Custom CSS in a Joomla! template or Drupal theme
Custom jQuery code
In this post we will review them and provide a few examples of the most complicated method, jQuery manipulation.
Customizing CiviCRM templates
This method is described in depth on our wiki under Theming CiviCRM and the subpages therein.
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Rumour has it that certain, ahem, consultants have been known to, on occasion, miss setting up the occasional CiviCRM cron, or not notice when the cron stops working on upgrade. Such consultants could wind up with egg on their face over crons. Somewhat less culpable are the CiviCRM newbies who didn't know their event waitlists wouldn't work or their memberships wouldn't roll over without the right cron.
Many modern web applications have a lot of spam deterrent such as Captcha, Bayesian filters, URL, ip detections etc. One example is trying to do 2 consecutive search on the CiviCRM.org forum and you will get a an error that look like
"Your last search was less than 5 seconds ago. Please try again later."
The concept behind this is flood control is to prevent a webbot (automated script) that is trying to spam and flood the server.
Sorceforge recently conducted an unscientific twtpoll that yielded interested results. The top four factors in the success of an open source project were:
Hi all,
as announced earlier the Location API is no longer with us in the API v3 version. It was a beast of an API, too smart for its own good and certainly to smart for the API team!
Rooty Hollow is excited to announce the release of our Constant Contact Integration module for CiviCRM. If you are not able or willing to deal with sending bulk e-mails form your host this module is for you.
We're a small children's theatre company and make great use of Google Analytics. We use CiviCRM/CiviEvent for our patron database and online ticket sales, and wanted to add Google Analytics ecommerce tracking to track the effectiveness of our various marketing activities.
I did this by copying /civicrm/templates/CRM/Price/Page/LineItem.tpl into a custom template directory, and adding the tracking code to my custom version. All of our "events" use price sets, and the price options are various ticket categories (child, adult, senior, etc). The code below tracks not only the entire order amount, but also the quantities of individual items in the order.
We have set a date for the next CiviCRM BeNeLux meetup: Friday 15 April 2011 in the afternoon. More details will follow, but we do expect a demo of the CiviCRM Mobile app (Android and iPhone) from qbSet.
We will also present the new feature on the upcoming 3.4 and 4.0 versions. If there is enough interest, we will focus on the new API v3.
Erik
We are excited to announce the publication of Using CiviCRM, by Packt Publishing – the first full-length, commercially published book covering implementation, configuration, and usage of CiviCRM.
Many non-profits live and die by the grant money that they are able to bring in. CiviCRM can currently track incoming grant applications through CiviGrant, but there is no way to track outgoing grants applications.
