Training: Customizing and Extending CiviCRM for Developers / Integrators

Facilitated by Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Product Manager

Dave will cover customizing templates, using CiviCRM hooks, leveraging CiviCRM APIs in your modules. Based on participant interest, advanced Drupal / CiviCRM integration will also be addressed, including geeky experiments w/ Views

Notes

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Future Changes

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Civicrm 2.1.2

• Released this week.
• Integration with Drupal
• Support ??
• Blog post about API changes

CiviCRM 2.2

• CiviCase
• jQuery (off Dojo)
• US PIRG sponsored
• Scalability
• Bug fixes
• January Beta
• More hooks for Drupal !!
• CiviEvent and CiviContribute -> Customize Contribution Block
  • Differnet Members get different place
• State Country widgets will change
• CiviMail will be easier to use Deployments
• US PIRG, AFFC, Eminent Defense, Guy in Brussel
  • DEvelopeing REST-dul-ish API
• PCP - Personal Campaign Cases
• Mass Mailing from Search Results (instead of Groups)
• Graphs with Custom Searching (by example)

Current

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Available Right Now in 2.x

• API
  • Top level objects
  • Custom fields and objects
• Temp Table Caches to have better perfomance expecially with ACL and Smart Groups
• Hook in ACLs because UI was too extensive/expensive
• Custom Search
  • List of Custom Searches
• Ping Back when installed ~7,000

API Now and Future

• Should be backwards compatible

Other Issues

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Semantic HTML

• Abstracting templating

Open Source Community

• What Works
  • Community Driven Features
  • Flushing Detail
    • CiviMember is a good example
  • Fine grain tracking to determine what is actually beeing used
  • Forum
  • IRC Channel getting a lot of use recently
• Improvements
  • Improve discussion and particpation
  • Getting more consulting firms involved
  • More user groups
• Meetings
  • More user meetings

Mobile App Ability

• Maybe not as the website, but more through API

2.3 Features?