Recruitment and a CiviCase Pipeline Visualization
(This post is a follow-up to previous discussions about developing recruitment functionality for CiviHR. More information can be found in the first, second, and third blog posts well as the...
View ArticleRecovering lost custom reports after migrations / updates
I’m not sure if this will be any use to anyone else, but I needed somewhere to write down the process, so you never know. After migration some of our custom reports have gone walkabouts and are showing...
View ArticleCiviVolunteer 1.3 is out with bug fixes and new features
This weekend I pushed out version 1.3 of CiviVolunteer. It contains a handful of bugfixes (check out the commit history for more on that) and a new feature that is the subject of this...
View ArticleNew CiviCRM Workgroup at MediaLab-Prado, Madrid
Yesterday was a great day for CiviCRM in Madrid. During the CiviDay, in Madrid, we announced the creation of a new CiviCRM working group that would start working the 11th February. We limited the...
View ArticleStill Time to Get Involved in Google Summer of Code
The developers who've already volunteered to help mentor students, organizations that agreed to give back by allowing their staff to co-mentor a project, and everyone who's already submitted project...
View ArticleMailchimp Phase II
Wouldn't it be nice if Macilhimp was tightly integrated into CiviCRM?Well, thanks to funding from Zing, work to better integrate CiviCRM to Mailchimp has begun.We've put together the key functions...
View ArticleFiling emails into CiviCRM via drag and drop (similar to the email processor)
If you don't know about the email processor, briefly it's a way to file emails into CiviCRM as activities, and less briefly, see...
View ArticleCron for Joomla 2.5.18+/J3.2.1+ Users
A number of forum posts popped up over the last week+ with issues running the system cron job. The cron would report the user/password is incorrect and unable to authenticate, even though the...
View ArticleJoin us at CiviCon San Francisco 2014 - April 24th-25th
This year's CiviCon will host an awesome line up of sessions, a free discovery track for those still evaluating CiviCRM, user/adminstrator trainings, and software and documentation sprints. Whether...
View ArticleNew extension makes it easier to list events and use checksums
Have you ever needed to send an email from CiviCRM that includes a list of upcoming events? Then you know how much fun the copy/paste effort this entails, especially if you want to use a checksum in...
View ArticleDrupal 8 is just around the next (53) corners*
This weekend has seen 2014 Drupal South conference in Wellington with an influx of a couple of hundred of mostly Kiwis and Aussies - but a few others - to talk Drupal. Coming away from the conference...
View ArticleLTS 4.2.16 out
LTS release 4.2.16 is now on sourceforge. Unfortunately there is an error on some admin pages in 4.2.15 which happened because the porting of the security patch was rushed. Hopefully this won't occur...
View ArticleSpring trainings announced - DC and Atlanta
It's starting to thaw here in DC now, so I'd like to bring you thoughts of spring—specifically a series of CiviCRM trainings to help you and your colleagues get the most out of your system. My...
View ArticleCiviCRM Security Policy page added
We've just added a page detailing CiviCRM's security policy and release process.https://civicrm.org/securityThis page is intended to help people identify how they can stay abreast of security updates,...
View ArticleCiviCRM helps PCFS spend time on programs, not administration
Park Circle Film Society is an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 micro-nonprofit in North Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Its mission is to enrich the community through film by: Screening independent films,...
View ArticleCiviCRM Is a Crucial Component of Youth Orchestra of Bucks County's...
The Youth Orchestra of Bucks County (YOBC) was founded in 1991 by a father and his eighth-grade daughter who recognized an unmet need in the area for advanced musical training to supplement school...
View ArticleWhy I Became (and still am) a CiviCRM Advocate
I now feel like a have a long history with CiviCRM as I first started working with the software in 2006. At that time I was working for GMCVO, a UK based organisation that supports local charities/not...
View ArticleCiviCRM Accepted as Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentoring Organization
We did it! Now what?Unfortunately we can't just sit back and wait for the student project proposals to roll in. If you look at the list of 190 organizations Google approved, we're competing w/...
View ArticleCiviCRM & Bootstrap: Thoughts on Interface Design
CiviCRM is a stellar example of how technology and internet have emerged as crucial components in improving the efficiency of organisations. From non-profits to governments, CiviCRM has helped people...
View ArticleHolly Ross, Exec Director for Drupal Association is CiviCon 2014 Keynote Speaker
Kick-off this year's CiviCon and learn about Web Experience Management during the plenary presentation from Holly Ross, Executive Director of the Drupal Association. We all think of data as that...
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