Has anyone fixed the GiftAid module?

[myles]

Hi there -

I'm having the same problems as in this topic:

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=21840.0

And before I spend the rest of the weekend tearing my hair out learning development skills to fix it, I just thought I'd check in...

[Donald Lobo]

Dont think so. at least we've not committed any fixes to it recently.

If you do find the bug and fix it, please create an issue and attach the patch so we can apply it to the core code

thanx

lobo

[myles]

Whilst having another go at debugging I've messed up my local installation so please excuse this question - I'll need to rebuild the local install before I can continue...

In our data the name and address fields in civicrm_value_gift_aid_submission are null in those records of people who have declared themselves eligeable for gift aid.... (i.e the id's and eligible_for_gift_aid fields have values)

Is this legitimate?

[Donald Lobo]

If i had to take a guess, no. seems like a bug in the recent version.

Would be really really good if a group of interested folks from the UK take ownership and maintain this module. I'm assuming it is useful to a fair % of the UK charities using civicrm

lobo

[myles]

You are quite right, Lobo - can anyone give me a list of the charities in the uk who use civiCRM - I realise that there is a user's group (which is a start), but these tend to be the people involved in implementing rather than the charities themselves - My first step would be to approach the charities to get funding or support in kind to set up a maintenance team - unless you have better ideas.

[myles]

I'm on hte day job at the moment, so this is a note rather than a question...

Assuming that the lack of name and address in custom data fields is the problem, how could it occur?

1 way could be through merging duplicate contact records - contributions and so on are moved across, but the custom fields are lost?

When a contact makes a donation in their own name rather than as a member of a business their email is different - the contribution page creates a new record rather than attaching the contribution to their existing record - then data is lost on merging?

This is only a theory scribbled down between meetings - I'll test later / week end / whenever the time allows