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kevinman777

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Civicrm functionality
August 24, 2008, 10:49:33 pm
I’m creating a forum community which has a lot of extra requirements. I’m interested in using civicrm-2.1.alpha4-joomla for this project.


I’m planning to design a website which require the following functionality:

1.Events:
Information / announcements
Registration (/cancellation?) for some of these

2.Membership:
Registration
Online update of membership database
Login / get forgotten password (using email as login id).

3.Mailing list management: join & remove
4.Document download area
5.Feedback to President or organisation
6.Surveys
7.Datafeed on information update
8.Live or recorded webcast of technical meeting
9.Simple financial accounts on server (specs tba)
10.Jobs / consultants listing
11.Archive area
12.Ads..

I was just wondering if I can achieve this with civicrm. Also there is another function which is essential to this:
I’d like to have different levels of user memberships (3+ types of users) where each different type of user can access/see different links/events/content on the site.

Is all of this possible with civicrm?

Kind Regards, Kevin
« Last Edit: August 24, 2008, 10:51:21 pm by kevinman777 »

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Re: Civicrm functionality
August 25, 2008, 12:29:16 am
The details you are looking for might change things, but from then general descriptions that you give, I think the following items could be done in conjunction with a CMS, I'm thinking Drupal(since I know it, but Joomla might also)

CiviCRM for items - 1-CiviEvent,2-CiviMember,3-CiviMail

Drupal as CMS for - 4,5,6,9-add-on modules,10,11-probably-but archive of what,12-ads on site, not an ad server or other sies

# 2 (each different type of user can access/see different links/events/content ) may require some extra work, but I have seen the event and content areas discussed, Drupal con limit content by security role but it will have to be set during membership processing.
# 7 depends what you mean, but both CiviCRM and Drupal create RSS feeds for at least some items
# 9 depends on details but CiviCRM does keep track o financials for events, memberships and contributions
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Re: Civicrm functionality
August 29, 2008, 08:00:25 pm
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I’d like to have different levels of user memberships (3+ types of users) where each different type of user can access/see different links/events/content on the site.

This will be you biggest snag, whichever CMS you choose, because CiviEvent doesn't have any kind of access control. Either an event is public, or it's not. There is no built-in way of restricting of CiviEvents based on Membership/Role/Permission that I am aware of.

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Re: Civicrm functionality
August 29, 2008, 08:55:27 pm

Matt is wrong :P

CiviEvent does have ACL access control enabled. You can apply an ACL to an event and restrict it to a certain group of users

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Re: Civicrm functionality
August 29, 2008, 09:27:09 pm
whoops...  :-[

it happens from time to time...

Is this a more recent feature? Cause I swear I looked into it around 1.7 / 1.8 era & I don't remember hearing that it was added.
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Re: Civicrm functionality
August 30, 2008, 12:57:26 am

i dont remember when it was added, but i suspect sometime around 1.8/1.9

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