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Hi Joomla folks,

An organisation I'm working with wants to allow their staff/volunteers to send in their annual reports of what they've been up to, via CiviCRM.

If it was Drupal I'd use the CiviCRM/Webform functionality, however this doesn't seem to be available for Joomla. (Is it on the horizon? How big a job is it?)

I thought we could possibly use Activities with Custom Data and create a Self-report Activity type. However this doesn't allow the users to add the data themselves.

If the Activity type Self-report had an interface for logged in users, this would make it possible.

Any thoughts on how to do this? There is budget for development - some guidance on the best way to achieve this to fit in with what the community needs would be awesome.

cheers
Ryan

1. webform civicrm functionality for joomla is not in the short or medium term horizon. Its a fairly large project, though we are moving towards that with profile improvements. If we get an org willing to sponsor a developer or two for 3-6 months, it can be pulled into an earlier release

2. You might want to check the survey functionality. This basically allows you to give users the ability to edit activity records and custom data

lobo