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Tachikoma

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Using CiviCRM. Exposed on a Joomla Site
December 13, 2007, 11:38:13 am
Hello all,

I'm running Joomla 1.5, CiviCRM 1.9, and I have uploaded 3100 contacts as households into my table.

I've got the site configured to be available to my network.

I need to setup users for CiviCRM, and I need them to be able to USE the CRM through the Joomla site/portal.

How do I expose something like the CiviCRM Home (Accessible through the Joomla Admin console) on the Frontpage, via a link on the side or top of the page?

Or if that is not an option, I'd like to have individual links, collected in a menu group like:

View/Search Clients (contacts)
   I want to use an alpha bar to sort through them.
   I would like to be able to enter activity data for each client through this section as well.
Add new Client

The goal is to have my employees/users go to the portal and keep track of their calls, etc.. without giving them access to the Joomla Admin console.

Also, about a month ago, I thought I saw a PDF online that was a documentation of CiviCRM in entirety.
I can't find it now, anyone know where it is? I think it was over 500 pages or something like that. I don't like the web version- I want to be able to print 20-30 pages at a time and take them to bed, or the train.

Thanks all!

-Tachikoma

cjrhoads

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Re: Using CiviCRM. Exposed on a Joomla Site
December 16, 2007, 11:36:20 am
Hello, Tachikoma.

Did you ever get an answer to your questions?

I would be interested in the answer as well, so if someone sent you information directly, please share it.

Regards
CJ Rhoads

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Re: Using CiviCRM. Exposed on a Joomla Site
December 16, 2007, 12:15:51 pm
Tachikoma,

Quote from: Tachikoma on December 13, 2007, 11:38:13 am
Also, about a month ago, I thought I saw a PDF online that was a documentation of CiviCRM in entirety.
I can't find it now, anyone know where it is? I think it was over 500 pages or something like that. I don't like the web version- I want to be able to print 20-30 pages at a time and take them to bed, or the train.

Can't help you with your Joomla problem, since I'm developing CiviCRM on Drupal only at the moment, but when it comes to documentation, it's available on our sourceforge downloads page (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=177914) in documentation section.

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Tachikoma

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Re: Using CiviCRM. Exposed on a Joomla Site
December 17, 2007, 02:28:40 pm
Thanks Michael, I got the PDF.

I still don't know the best way to "expose" the CiviCRM contact dashboard (or something like it) on the Joomla frontpage, or any page for that matter. On my Joomla frontpage, I made 3 links in a menu to 3 CiviCRM components(functions). I have a link to the Contact Dashboard (The dashboard lists Your Groups, Contributions, Memberships, and Events, which i don't find particularly useful at this stage of deployment, but it looks beneficial later on), a link to "Profile Search and Listings" (contact search), and Profile Create, whihc I think just creates a contact.

I'm mainly using this for client call logging.

That being the case, Is there just an activity log add-in for Joomla that I can sue with my Joomla contacts? Maybe I don't even need CiviCRM yet. I thought I'd give CiviCRM a try since I hadn't seen anything else yet.

Any thoughts?

Tachikoma

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Re: Using CiviCRM. Exposed on a Joomla Site
December 17, 2007, 05:16:59 pm
Quote from: cjrhoads on December 16, 2007, 11:36:20 am
Did you ever get an answer to your questions?

I would be interested in the answer as well, so if someone sent you information directly, please share it.

Somewhat, look in CiviCRM > Administer CiviCRM > Configure > CiviCRM Profile > Standalone Form

I still want to customize that form more though, to include fields to view/edit activity logs.
If you can make that work, I'd really be interested.

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Re: Using CiviCRM. Exposed on a Joomla Site
December 24, 2007, 11:21:15 am
I don't think the profiles tool will allow you to control activities. That's really built to be an administrative function, not an end-user (front-end) function.

I don't think what you want to do is really possible. One alternative would be to give the users access to the backend Joomla admin, and see if you can use one of the ACL extensions (since Joomla's built-in ACL is too limited) to only give the user access to the CiviCRM tools. I haven't really used any of the ACL extensions very much, so I can't recommend one that will do the trick. This is just an idea for a direction to go in.
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