Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - London Sept-Oct 2010

This comprehensive two-day hands on training course is targeted at administrators, integrators and developers who want to learn more about configuring, customizing, and extending CiviCRM to meet their organization / client needs. You don't need to be a 'developer' to attend but you should have basic PHP and MySQL skills, and be familiar with (or at least ready to dive into) the CiviCRM code base.

Requirements

Bring a wifi-enabled laptop with a working copy of CiviCRM 3.2.3 and Drupal / Joomla and a text / code editor
Read the Extending CiviCRM chapter of "Understanding CiviCRM" (online book)
For advanced developers - set up a testing sandbox

Schedule

Here is a starting agenda of some of the topics that we think are worth covering. The camp is a mixture of presentations from the core team and community members followed by specific sessions with hands-on work on different topics. It is important for us to get feedback from the participants at an early stage so we can plan and ensure we cover most things. Please add your comments / needs on this page

Thu, Sept 30th

Time	Topic	Presenter
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Arrival, caffeine and mingling
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Introduction and Training Goals
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Presentation: CiviCRM Overview	Michael
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Schema Structure & Debugging Tips	Kurund
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Hands-on: Customizing Templates - how to rearrange the layout / eliminate some items from the page
11:45 am - 12:30 am	CiviCRM Hook Overview, DB Access, QuickForm Basics	Piotr
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Presentation: Case Study 1
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Hands-on: Implementing the validate and buildForm CiviCRM hooks in a Drupal Module
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Presentation: The School Module (or what you can do with hooks and customized templates)	Lobo
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Hands-on: Putting it all together - using the pageRun hook to display additional data and setting the defaults via buildForm hook, Encryption/Decryption of SSN / NI
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Recap and feedback on day 1

Fri, Oct 1st

Time	Topic	Presenter
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Arrival, caffeine and mingling
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Presentation: Case Study: Alpha International	Paul / Andrew
9:30 am - 9:45 am	Presentation: CiviReport + Creating New Reports	Deepak
9:45 am - 11:00 am	Hands-on: Customizing a Report
11:15 pm - 12:30 pm	Hands-on: jQuery and CiviCRM	Xavier/Kurund
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Presentation: Case Study: CiviCase + CiviPetition	Dave J / Xavier
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Hands-on: Session a: CiviCRM Profiles, Standalone Forms and API
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Hands-on: Session b: A detailed look at Views2	Kurund
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Hands-on: Session a: Implementing forms and pages in CiviCRM	Lobo
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Hands-on: Session b: Custom Search	Piotr
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Recap and feedback on day 2 and the training camp	All

Exercises

We are maintaining a current list of projects that we will work on during the sprint.

Additional session topics which could be included based on interest

CiviCRM ACL's and Permissioning
Multi-Site
Implementing Custom Search
CiviCase
Contact Sub-types
Custom fields and types, how to customize them: CiviCRM Contact Reference, CiviCRM Select / Checkbox (using your own dynamic options), Read-only code-generated custom fields.
Localising CiviCRM
Multilingual CiviCRM

What do you want out of it?

Please add to this section (or in comments) a list of the top 4-6 topics YOU are MOST interested in. Select from the scheduled and / or additional topics above. If there is a session topic that is NOT listed and is important to you - include that in your list (with a brief description).