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CiviCRM suggestions
June 01, 2010, 01:13:47 pm
I volunteer for a small Non Profit Organization that uses Joomla for Event Registration. I have no experience with Joomla or CiviCRM.  This NPO wants a system to manage their constituents-mainly donors, volunteers and past event registrants. After doing some research I learnt that Joomla and CiviCRM work great. Furthermore it is a best solution for this NPO. However none of the 3 staff members here deal with Joomla administration. They don't have a test site. From reading the forums and blogs here, I understand that installing and configuring CiviCRM is not very straightforward. Hence I am thinking of installing the stand alone version of CiviCRM. Can someone please give me suggestions?

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Re: CiviCRM suggestions
June 01, 2010, 01:40:45 pm
The configuration is virtually the same for all versions. The installation for Joomla should not be hard at all actually. See here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Joomla+Installation+Guide

and I would strongly recommend NOT using the standalone version because support for that will be dropped in the near future.
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Re: CiviCRM suggestions
September 11, 2010, 06:16:46 am
I just discovered CiviCRM (courtesy the FSF newsletter) and having spent years developing several associations' Wordpress sites, I neither need nor want another CMS to learn and manage.  As treasurer of one and vice president of two other NPOs I have been looking for a decade for something like this and am ecstatic to find y'all.

I want to use CiviCRM as an internal tool only -- only office staff needs to login.  We do not need yet another set of usernames and passwords to manage.  Nor do we want any publicly-facing aspect of CiviCRM.

Why do I need Drupal or Joomla at all? 

Is it possible to configure CiviCRM so it does not have a publicly viewable component at all?  FAQ somewhere? 

Guidance would be appreciated.

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Re: CiviCRM suggestions
September 11, 2010, 06:31:57 am
Quote from: wlindley on September 11, 2010, 06:16:46 am
I just discovered CiviCRM (courtesy the FSF newsletter) and having spent years developing several associations' Wordpress sites, I neither need nor want another CMS to learn and manage.  As treasurer of one and vice president of two other NPOs I have been looking for a decade for something like this and am ecstatic to find y'all.

Welcome and happy to see you ecstatic ;)

Quote from: wlindley on September 11, 2010, 06:16:46 am

I want to use CiviCRM as an internal tool only -- only office staff needs to login.  We do not need yet another set of usernames and passwords to manage.  Nor do we want any publicly-facing aspect of CiviCRM.

Why do I need Drupal or Joomla at all? 

Is it possible to configure CiviCRM so it does not have a publicly viewable component at all?  FAQ somewhere? 

Guidance would be appreciated.

You need login/password(s)  (technically, at least one, you can use the same login/pwd for everyone) and civicrm relies on the CMS to provide it. So far, only joomla and drupal, but they have been some community members mentioning willing to integrate with wordpress, but code produced or released as far as I'm aware.

This being said, I would suggest you to install it with drupal as an empty shell, as if you only want to use it for internal use, you don't need any of drupal features, beside creating a user.

As for the login, they are two modules at least that allows not to have to bother with yet another login password: openid or fb.

So the only thing left to do is to create an account with your openid, and set the permissions so you can do all the civicrm stuff you want.

Anonymous won't have any access to any civicrm functions by default, so no publicly visible anything civicrm related.

Sounds like a pain, but installing drupal and forgetting is not that time consuming (even my first install was probably well below the hour)

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Re: CiviCRM suggestions
September 12, 2010, 08:20:12 am
Quote from: wlindley on September 11, 2010, 06:16:46 am
I want to use CiviCRM as an internal tool only -- only office staff needs to login.  We do not need yet another set of usernames and passwords to manage.  Nor do we want any publicly-facing aspect of CiviCRM.

You can have it on your intranet or use a subdomain of your internet site. You can use htpaswd protection in that case. In fact if the URL is public, you WILL need some sort of protection. Once you get beyond that, then, as mentioned, you can use one login. You can even just put the login on the page and then no one has to remember it. But then of course whoever can get to that page can get in. :)

Quote from: wlindley on September 11, 2010, 06:16:46 am
Why do I need Drupal or Joomla at all?

CiviCRM requires one of those to function. As noted, there is presently no other option, but one need not learn almost anything at all regarding the CMS--it can be safely ignored and just used as a platform to house CiviCRM. I have many installs like that.

Quote from: wlindley on September 11, 2010, 06:16:46 am
Is it possible to configure CiviCRM so it does not have a publicly viewable component at all?  FAQ somewhere?

By default it is basically not public.
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Re: CiviCRM suggestions
October 12, 2010, 09:44:19 am
Thanks, folks.  I did a base drupal installation and am taking it from there.
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