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CiviCRM Cookbook

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CiviCRM Cookbook

Overview of this book

CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software geared toward meeting the needs of non-profit and other civic-sector organizations.Organizations realize their mission via CiviCRM through contact management, fundraising, event management, member management, mass e-mail marketing, peer-to-peer campaigns, case management, and much more.CiviCRM is localized in over 20 languages including: Chinese (Taiwan, China), Dutch, English (Australia, Canada, U.S., UK), French (France, Canada), German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Swedish.CiviCRM Cookbook will enhance your CiviCRM skills. It has recipes to help you use CiviCRM more efficiently, integrate it with CMSs, and also develop CiviCRM.This book begins with recipes that help save time and effort with CiviCRM. This is followed by recipes for organizing data more efficiently and managing profiles.Then you will learn authentication and authorization and managing communication with contacts.Then you will be guided on using the searching feature and preparing reports. We will then talk about integrating Drupal and CiviCRM. You will also be taught to manage events effectively. Finally, learn about CiviCampaign, Civimember, and developing CiviCRM.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
CiviCRM Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Managing Communications

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Setting up a bounced e-mail account using Gmail

  • Creating mail templates for CiviMail

  • Creating mail templates for CiviMail in Drupal

  • Using tokens in templates

  • Creating custom date tokens

  • Scheduling CiviMail

  • Throttling mailings to comply with hosting restrictions

  • Creating newsletter subscription services using profiles

  • Creating newsletter subscriptions using URLs

  • Creating a standalone newsletter subscription form

  • Getting a CiviMail report

  • Mailing attachments in e-mails and CiviMail

  • Allowing users to update information without logging in