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swartik

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Membership Summary for Previous Months
January 24, 2008, 07:09:26 am
Hi,

Our organization's membership secretary likes the tabular information she gets from the civi member page (i.e., the url http://.../civicrm/member?reset=1). She likes it so much she wants to be able to retrieve it for past months too.

What's the best way to implement this? I was thinking of extending some existing civi classes to override relevant methods -- e.g., extend CRM_Member_Page_DashBoard and override the preProcess() function, extend CRM_Member_BAO_Membership and override getMembershipSummary() -- and creating a new template to use instead of CRM/Member/Page/DashBoard.tpl. Is this a good approach, or would the best experts advise another way?

Thanks for any and all help!

Steve Wartik

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Re: Membership Summary for Previous Months
January 25, 2008, 03:30:43 pm
Hi Steve - Lobo and I chatted about this last night and had the following thoughts:
* Enhancing the component dashboards (esp CiviMember and CiviContribute) with the abilty to show tabular results for a user-defined range of months seems like a valuable extension.

* So... rather than creating a new template - how about implementing the alternative view as a URL parameter-driven conditional. Depending on your use case and how complicated you want to make it - the parameter could be a simple boolean to show past 12 months (or whatever additional set of columns seems useful). Or you could start and end date params....

* In order to make this a bit easier - your first step might be to just modify ("hack") the existing template and getMembershipSummary() method to do what you need. Then see what it would take to parameterize the alternatives. A simple pair of links on the page could be used to switch "views".

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swartik

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Re: Membership Summary for Previous Months
January 29, 2008, 08:49:54 am
Dave,

I think I've got something useful hacked together... unfortunately I'm on a business trip at a site that blocks IRC chats. Stay tuned....

Steve
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