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Background: CiviHR includes a set of extensions. Although they could be used separately, we generally try installing them together. The goal is to install all the extensions.

To get a feel for it before doing the install, you can browse over to civihr-auto.dev.civicrm.org. This site is reset daily with the latest, bleeding-edge code.

With that said, suggested steps:

1. Wait 24-48hr for CiviCRM 4.4alpha3 and CiviHR 1.0alpha3 to come out. The announcements will include a download link for a zip file. (You could do the same steps with alpha1 if you're in a rush, or you could get the code from git if you're familiar with it. But waiting is probably easiest.)

2. Install CiviCRM per usual.

3. Extract the CiviHR zip file -- it should create a folder like "civihr-123" or "civihr".

4. Upload the "civihr" folder to your server. For an expedient demonstration, I would suggest uploading to /wp-content/plugins/civicrm/tools/extensions/civihr.

5. In the CiviCRM UI, navigate to "Administer => System => Manage Extensions". Click "Refresh".

6. Activate each of the CiviHR extensions. You may not need to activate all of them, and you may be able to install them in a different order, but -- for all the internal testing so far -- we've always activated the extensions in this order:

-- New Data Types (with basic CRUD screens) --
org.civicrm.hrbank
org.civicrm.hrdemog
org.civicrm.hrident
org.civicrm.hrjob
org.civicrm.hrmed
org.civicrm.hrqual
org.civicrm.hrvisa
org.civicrm.hremerg
org.civicrm.hrcareer

-- Major New Screens --
org.civicrm.hrreport
org.civicrm.hrui
org.civicrm.hrstaffdir

Note that the "hrui" extension will visibly change several things in an effort to streamline the UI for HR installations -- e.g. it will turn off CiviContribute and CiviEvent, disable various tabs, etc. This is not required technically, and you could omit the "hrui" extension, but this does reflect an assumption that early installations (based on 1.0) will run CiviHR as a stanadalone site/DB.