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Is CiviCRM a viable solution
October 30, 2013, 07:14:28 am
We are a non-profit that funds a school in Haiti. We have perhaps 200 donors and the school has 350 children. We have a joomla site on shared hosting. We are currently looking to build a database of donors and children in order to be able to match the two. Donors would be able to see their child's profile (only) that would include a picture and basic bio. We use paypal for donation buttons and another database to handle donations. I am wondering if CiviCRM would be a good match for relating contacts to each other; donors to students as well as student to other students (siblings) as well as categories of children (grades, funded vs unfunded, etc).

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
October 30, 2013, 12:43:57 pm
That sounds fairly do-able with CiviCRM. Shared hosting can be a problem as CiviCRM can require more resources that some shared hosting services allow(although CiviHosting runs a shared hosting which is designed for Civi sites). I would imagine you could use permissioned relationships & the contact dashboard
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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 01, 2013, 05:38:48 am
Thank you for your response. I have been a Joomla user for 5 years but I am obviously new to CiviCRM. I can read the book and stumble through, but one thing I have learned (w/ Joomla anyway) is that having a big picture view of how the component works would save hours of reconfiguration afterwards. I will start with 3 or 4 contacts and work through the logic, but is there anyone that would listen to what my goal is and offer a basic outline of how CiviCRM can do what I need?

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 01, 2013, 06:20:58 am
Perhaps you could find assistance from one of the CiviCRM ambassadors: https://civicrm.org/ambassadors
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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 01, 2013, 08:11:10 am

and if you decide you want to hire someone, civicrm service partners listing is here:

https://civicrm.org/providers

However, i would move away from 'cheap' shared hosting as the first step

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 01, 2013, 09:20:51 am
Thank you. At the risk of sending the thread astray: What are the back-up and/or migration capabilities? I am fond of Akeeba but I understand it may not include CiviCRM? The last thing I want is to not be able to back up all the time (and possibly money) invested.

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 02, 2013, 11:05:35 am
Akeeba does not backup the CiviCRM DB as far as I know. A good host provides backups for you or you could hire a service for that. Migration is always possible as per the wiki: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Moving+an+Existing+Installation+to+a+New+Server+or+Location
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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 18, 2013, 11:44:26 am
Thanks Hershel, I have done just what you suggested and got a good host. I am struggling, however getting anything but two of the canned custom searched to show up on my front end and I can't get any of my profiles to show up as searches even when I'm logged in as super admin. I'm not finding a ton of info for Joomla integration, either. Is there a "go to" person or resources for Joomla integration?

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 18, 2013, 12:58:42 pm
You can ask questions on these forums, but if you need more involved assistance, you may need to hire a consultant.
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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 18, 2013, 01:02:13 pm

the service provider listing is here: https://civicrm.org/providers

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 18, 2013, 05:16:27 pm
Thank you both. I'm not looking to make it do anything it shouldn't do out of the box, I just for some reason can't get things working on the front end of the site.

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 18, 2013, 05:50:30 pm

might want to try on the civicrm demo servers and see if it behaves as u'd expect it to (from the docs etc)

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 18, 2013, 06:17:16 pm
Thanks. I actually tried that but the demo server won't allow me to create a joomla menu item, which is what I'm having issues with.

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Re: Is CiviCRM a viable solution
November 19, 2013, 09:49:52 am
Quote from: Hershel on November 02, 2013, 11:05:35 am
Akeeba does not backup the CiviCRM DB as far as I know. A good host provides backups for you or you could hire a service for that. Migration is always possible as per the wiki: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Moving+an+Existing+Installation+to+a+New+Server+or+Location

wrong, it does.

only issue is the hardcoded strings in the 2 php files that need to be manually altered.
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