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Custom Activity Report Profiles
February 07, 2012, 08:07:55 pm
I am looking for some input on how to capture activity reports from our staff in Nicaragua.  One of our major programs involves Sustainable Tourism where we have groups come down for multiple weeks for service work and tourism activities.  We will be using CiviEvents for managing most aspects of planning trips and capturing volunteer information and payments.  Each event has multiple activities which are led by our staff onsite.  Upon completion of said activities they provide critical information for us to measure the social and environmental impacts on the local community and our volunteers.  Right now that is a word form, which is unstructured and rudimentary.  I am trying to figure what the best method for capturing this information is, I envision developing a profile with custom data, but not quite sure how to classify it as it will be an activity directly related to an event and to the volunteers that are registered for that event.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Custom Activity Report Profiles
February 07, 2012, 11:39:49 pm
So really you want them to log in to the site, and see some kind of form where they enter the data required? And you want to process that data into CiviCRM, right?

What I have done in a project with a case a little bit like this is:
  • create a profile where the user can log in and select the organization (in your case the event) that is required
  • use the hook buildForm to add additional (custom) data to the form
  • create a specific activity type for the reporting back (in your case something like feedback on activity) and add custom data to that specific activity type
  • use the postProcess hook to get the data from the profile and create the activity using the API

Does that make sense? Are you familiar with profiles, hooks and API?
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Re: Custom Activity Report Profiles
February 08, 2012, 08:34:22 pm
i would also check out what the webform/civicrm module can do for you as it creates activities as one option and collects any other data you may want
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Re: Custom Activity Report Profiles
February 15, 2012, 09:07:27 am
Great, thanks for the input fellas.  I am following what you are saying Erik, however I am not familiar with hooks and the API.  I would really like to keep all of this information inside of Civi moving forward.  I am sure I can search and find some info, but if you have some recommended material for me to do some research, then that would be welcomed.

Also, I will take a look at the webform module.

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Re: Custom Activity Report Profiles
February 15, 2012, 09:12:28 am
Doesnt look like webforms work with Joomla, which is the CMS we are using.  Or am i mistaken?

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Re: Custom Activity Report Profiles
February 15, 2012, 11:11:09 pm
No, you are right. Webforms is a Drupal module.
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