CiviCRM Cookbook

Description

Master this web-based constituent relationship management software for nonprofit and civic sector organizations Overview Take your CiviCRM skills to the next level and handle CiviCRM efficiently Covers a wide range of recipes from organizing data efficiently to developing CiviCRM extensions Pracital, comprehensive, well-explained recipes with the necessary screenshots In Detail 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. What you will learn from this book Set up geocoding Add custom data fields Display a contact map Create permissions for administartors Create mail templates for CiviMail Add the external identifier field to full text search Create user accounts from contacts in Drupal Move a site to a production server Approach This book is written in cookbook style with practical, comprehensive recipes expained with the aid of the necessary screenshots. Who this book is written for If you have basic CiviCRM skills and want to further enhance your CiviCRM skills, this book is for you.