News and Blog

Migrate 2 + CiviCRM api 3 = CiviMigrate : 18 Dec 2011

A major challenge for CiviCRM implementers is migrating data from legacy systems into CiviCRM. For large datasets the front end import mechanisms time-out and don't allow for the complexity of the data.

Drupal CiviCRM search block : 23 May 2011

A customer recently requested that the little contact search box in the top left corner be made available on all their drupal pages and that it link to the contact's Drupal page.

Re-using the Civi-search box seemed a bit too difficult but there was a fairly easy solution...

A foray into Rules module : 05 May 2011

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Importing a CSV using Table Wizard : 15 Oct 2010

Table Wizard offers a quick & dirty way to get a csv into a Drupal mysql DB as a table. You need to start by downloading & enabling tablewizard and schema. Make sure you choose to enable the delimited import part.

You should then be able to navigate to admin/content/...

Importing Memberships & Related Contributions using Civimigrate  :  15 Oct 2010

The joy of CiviMigrate is when you have a complicated destination for your data. In our example we have a simple csv with 6 fields but we want to create a Contact (see previous blog), a membership for...

Importing data from a Drupal View into CiviCRM using CiviMigrate  :  15 Oct 2010

The Migrate module is a powerful tool for importing data into Drupal and Drupal modules. It is also an approach we have been using for large, complicated or recurring imports into CiviCRM. Some advantages of using Migrate module for imports:

Getting Your CSV data into Drupal & into a View using Feeds & Data (ready to migrate!)  :  14 Oct 2010

Often data that you need to import into CiviCRM is presented to you in an Excel or CSV format. Of course there are various ways to do this but the Data / Feeds module combo provides a nice method if you are likely to be uploading a similar csv more than once, or if the person actually uploading...

Make it Happen - a new way of support CiviCRM development  :  23 Sep 2010

Open Source projects often suffer from development ideas not getting sufficient resources to implement properly, with the outcome being lots of users continue to use work arounds or poor fixes.

Eileen has put some time in to setting up CiviCRM with a Make it Happen facility so that...

Aus Greens website gets thumbs up from the ABC  :  17 Jun 2010

Nice to see some praise for the Aus Greens site. From the ABC website http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2955511.htm

CiviCRM Manual - book from zero to published in 5-days  :  15 May 2009

So the concept of getting locked in a cabin in the woods with 10 other civicrm users and developers to write a much needed manual from woe to go in 5-days was a fascinating one.