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Hi there,

We are developing a new component for CiviCRM, and just have a few general questions that hopefully somebody on the forum could help us with.

* Is there a component template, or an example component that we can work from?

* Is there more complete documentation on creating new components?

- can only find: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/Creating+custom+components

* We've tried copying the membership component and changing file and class names and of course the info.php file and the menu xml file, but after we rebuild the menu, the new entries don't in the navigation menu. Has anyone else had this problem?

* Is there documentation on creating a search form with results table? We were able to do this in an earlier attempt with limited success, but were unable to display a respective page once a certain action was selected from the drop down menu for actions.  How do we do this and then access the selected rows of the from the results table?

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I know this is a lot of questions for just one post, but I'm hoping someone will have experienced at least one of the problems I'm facing might be able to share their solution.  Thanks in advance...

Simon.

Hi Pete,

This is for the MailChimp Integration module as discussed here http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,20814.msg87026.html#msg87026

Thanks
Rohit

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies. Donald, I had a look in the bin directory and also had a chat with Rohit about how this could be implemented.  A cron job that  would synchronise groups and contacts with a Mailchimp list would probably work. I'll try it out later today.

If we wanted to synchronise groups and contacts using hooks, that would work even better, as it would happen instantaneously, which would obviously be better from an end user point of view.  But what would we do if the user already had a civicrmHooks.php file in their custom directory.  How would we overcome that conflict?

I did manage to get a fully functional basic component working, though you might be right in terms of this functionality probably doesn't require it's own component.

Thanks again,

Simon.