CiviCRM - Advanced Topics

Dave Greenbergdave@civicrm.org

Michal Machmichal@civicrm.org

Topics Preview upcoming releases Data model overview Integrating, customizing and extending

administrator configured forms and directories customized templates public APIs Hooks

Permissioning and ACLs Localisation and translation

Upcoming Releases 1.8

Last release for PHP4 and MySQL 4 Duplicate detect and merge API architecture changes Price Sets and RSS for events CiviReport - BIRT

2.0 Data model improvements: custom data, locations Search re-write Component architecture

CiviCRM Data Model Xml/schema Contacts and location data Groups and tags Option groups and values Relationships Activities Custom fields and data Profiles

Integrate, Customize and Extend

Administrator configured forms and directories (profiles - settings and fields)

Customizing templates API overview and examples Hooks Custom components

CiviCRM Profiles

Expose search, listings, and contact sign-up (create) forms w/o coding

Configure sets of core and custom fields Linked to user registration, user account, or

other components (CiviContribute) and modules (e.g. eCommerce…)

Module-rendered OR standalone forms

Using API’s in Simple PHP snippets

EXAMPLE…Get sorted listing for members of a

'named' group using search API

Reporting with BIRT

Requirements Creating and customizing reports

Two-way Integration w/ Hooks

Rationale / Benefits Demo / Key integration points Code review and tips Issues and Hacks in current release

Future Directions / Feedback On our “radar”

Easier to extend with custom components Better developer doc and more examples Remote API invoke via REST Search improvements (UI / API) - flexible query building

(AND / OR, grouping, more operators…) Command-line import (large datasets)

?? What’s important & missing or “needs work” ??

Resources Project Home

http://civicrm.org Documentation

http://documentation.civicrm.org Community Forum (support and discussion)

http://forum.civicrm.org Developer Mailing List

http://lists.civicrm.org (civicrm_dev) FAQs

http://faq.civicrm.org Downloads

http://civicrm.org/download Issue Tracker

http://wiki.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM

Drupal and CiviCRM

Thanks for the invaluable input, contributions and support from our partners and colleagues in the CivicSpace and Drupal communities!