CiviCRM v1.4

New Features for v1.4

Release Items - Details and Status This page highlights some of the key enhancements and fixes in v1.4. Click the issue-tracking code link for more detailed specifications and current status of the item. For a complete listing of all new features and fixes - check out our complete 1.4 issues listing.

CiviContribute Phase 2

• CRM-724 Offer and Track Premiums (thank-you gifts)
• CRM-686 Integrate Contribution search with Advanced (Contact) Search - so I can find contacts who made contributions AND meet specific demographic criteria, etc.
• CRM-711 Custom page elements (profiles) can include core and custom Contribution fields in addition to Contact fields (see Profile section below)
• CRM-675 Import contribution data w/o requiring our PK (contact_id) - by matching contact duplicated matching criteria. For initial implementation any duplicate matches will be skipped and reported/downloaded at the end of the import. If time, we will providing option to manually confirm a match or create new record when duplicate matches are detected.
• Add a Note field to Contribution record schema.
• Add a field for 'Solicitor' (i.e. user/contact who brought in the donation) to Contribution schema. This could be used to track development staff/board member/volunteer fund-raising results.
• CRM-762 Pass in contribution custom field name/value pairs via URL to automatically set values for submitted online contributions.
• CRM-774 Include customized footers in you online contribution pages.

Profile Enhancements

• CRM-656 Filter Profile Listings by Group Membership (e.g. for this profile, only contacts in the "Advisory Board" group are exposed to profile search/listings)
• CRM-690 Profile Listings can expose Household or Organization records / info in addition to Individual contact information. Contact type and "sort name" will be displayed as the first columns for all profile listings (profile search results).
• CRM-710 All Profile form field labels can be customized (and fields can have NO label if desirable).
• CRM-689 Profile forms - update mode for logged in users.
• CRM-661 Specify custom post-processing URLs to redirect users after they submit Profile forms.
• CRM-722 Optional custom error page (redirect URL) for Standalone profile forms.
• CRM-652 Implement Profile APIs
• CRM-659 The Profile Search criteria fields are explicitly controlled during profile configuration (each profile field is marked as 'searchable' or not).
• CRM-660 Profile listings can be displayed with OR without a Search form.
• CRM-711 A Profile can expose Contact properties plus a single other related class (initially, will support exposing Contribution properties for profiles used on a Contribution page).

CiviMail Enhancements

• Cleanup Send Mail wizard UI
• Admin function to set/edit domain address info which is needed for mailings
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Miscellaneous

• CRM-702 Import of Activity History records.
• CRM-761 Export Contact Tags and Groups.
• CRM-799 Backup script can be run from cron job.
• CRM-655 Assign Tags to contacts during Import.
• CRM-750 Import supports multiple date formats.
• CRM-644 Configure ranges for custom Date fields (select options).
• CRM-641 Include Google or Yahoo map links on contact view pages for BOTH primary and non-primary (geo-coded) addresses.
• CRM-644 Integrate calendar icon/jscript for custom Date fields.
• CRM-643 Searchable custom fields need a 'search by range' property (would be applicable to Date, Number, Money, Int data types)
• CRM-642 Suppress 'Map' action link in contact selector rows if required data not present for the record
• CRM-653 Allow import of lat/long (geocoding) fields
• CRM-654 Configure rows and cols for custom Note fields
• CRM-641 Provide Map links for non-primary addresses in Contact Summary (Basic.tpl)
• CRM-655 Import - Assign Tag(s) to Contacts
• CRM-703 Fix_Address API - Retrieves and updates geocoding (lat/long) for an address using the configured geo-coding method. (This API will be extended in a subsequent release to also do address normalization.)
• Ability to communicate to contacts via SMS (similar to send email functionality) using a commercial aggregator (Clickatell.com) (alpha release only)