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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 16th
Time |
Topic |
Presenter |
|---|---|---|
8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Arrival, caffeine and mingling |
|
9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Introduction and Training Goals |
All |
9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Presentation: CiviCRM 3.2 and 3.3 |
Lobo |
10:00 am - 10:30 am |
CiviCRM Code Overview, Debugging Tips |
Kurund |
10:30 am - 11:15 am |
Hands-on: Customizing Templates - how to rearrange the layout / eliminate some items from the page |
Kurund |
11:15 am - 11:30 am |
Schema Overview, SQL Files, Upgrade Process |
Lobo |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Hands-on: Implementing the validate and buildForm CiviCRM hooks in a Drupal Module |
Lobo |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
|
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Presentation: NYSS |
NYSS Staff |
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Schema Overview, SQL Files |
Lobo |
2:45 pm - 3:40 pm |
Hands-on: Putting it all together - using the pageRun hook to display additional data and setting the defaults via buildForm hook |
Lobo |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm |
Presentation: The School Module (or what you can do with hooks and customized templates) |
Lobo |
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Hands-on: Encryption/Decryption of SSN and using permissions to display |
Deepak |
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm |
Presentation: SimplyCivi - A CiviCRM Theme |
Kyle J |
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Recap and feedback on day 1 |
All |
Fri, Sept 17th
Time |
Topic |
Presenter |
|---|---|---|
8;30 am - 9:00 am |
Arrival, caffeine and mingling |
All |
9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Presentation: CivicActions |
Fen |
9:15 am - 9:30 pm |
Presentation on OG + Views + CiviCRM |
Andrew |
9:30 am - 10:45 am |
Hands-on: Session a: A detailed look at Views2 |
Kurund |
9:30 am - 10:45 am |
Hands-on: Session b: Multisite and Site Migration |
Lobo |
11:00 am - 11:15 am |
Presentation: CiviReport + Creating New Reports |
Deepak |
11:15 am - 12:30 pm |
Hands-on: Customizing a Report |
All |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
|
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Presentation: Writing a custom module for CiviCRM |
Dave S |
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Hands-on: CiviCRM Profiles, Standalone Forms and API |
All |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Hands-on: jQuery and CiviCRM |
Kurund |
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Recap and feedback on day 2 and the training camp |
All |
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
CiviCRM Community: How you can participate; Civi-Make-It-Happen |
With User Camp attendees |
Additional session topics which could be included based on interest
- CiviCRM ACL's and Permissioning
- Multi-Site
- 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.
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).
3 Comments
Hide/Show CommentsSep 14, 2010
Shaya Klechevsky
This is going to be my first CiviCRM conference, and I'm very much looking forward to it. I know that I have an interest specifically in CiviCRM ACLs and Permissions, Custom Searches and anything related to the Custom Fields.
Sep 14, 2010
Frank J. Gómez
I am very much interested in a hands-on multi-site demonstration. I think it's a common use case for an organization to have MyOrg.org and CampaignWebsite.com and to collect donations, volunteer information, emails for a newsletter, etc. on both. In addition to learning about any Civi-related config required, I'd like to learn about any changes that the underlying Drupal sites must undergo (for example, I seem to recall reading that the Drupal sites must share users tables). It would also be great to hear pros and cons of going with a multi-site setup, plus any known issues with multi-site.
Sep 16, 2010
Ken Zalewski
Also interested in single-app, multi-site configuration. For NYSS, we are using multi-sites to implement 62 CRM instances for 62 Senators, but all sites are in the same domain with the same DB naming scheme.