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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

Finding developer resources


CiviCRM has excellent documentation for the basic needs of most people who want to create a good CiviCRM installation.

As tasks and requirements get more and more specific, guidance becomes a little bit trickier to find. Luckily, CiviCRM has a thriving online community that can help through forums as well as an IRC channel where you can communicate with the core team. Support does not come much better than that.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we'll look at what resources are available to beginner and experienced developers.

The following table shows the CiviCRM developer continuum. Progressively more skills, time, and commitment is required as the tasks become more and more complex.

Task

Skills needed

Resources

Configuring the CiviCRM core and its components

An understanding of CiviCRM

CiviCRM books, forums, blogs, and meetups

Basic customization of report templates and search templates

Knowledge of template structures

CiviCRM books, forums, blogs, Wiki, and...