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I really love the features of CCRM, however I am a bit dumbfounded on some connection issue I am having in the user managment of CCRM as applied to Joomla/CB. I believe most of them are due to integration still being in its infancy, but I really would like to find a solution or at least know that one is either possible or forthcoming.

1) When I import users after installing CCRM, those users lose any attribute other than name and email. My users have several custom fields, address, city, zip and state. But when imported in CCRM none of those fields are transfered

2) I also would like to use CCRM to offer membership sign in for our users. However, our users also need to have their community Builder profile active so they can post to the forum, list their posts, have their blog and photo gallery. It's clear to me that joining the site through CCRM does not make a user a member on the site at all, let alone fill the profile with the pertinent data

3) same for donations. It'd be nice for someone making a donation to also become a member of the site (if they wish). Again, CCRM and CB (or even just the regular Joomla users management) seem to be completely separate entities.

4) Again, when a user joins the site with Joomla's own registration process or CB, I believe that their data syncs with CCRM, but again no other data ins transfered. That includes common fields in both programs such as address, etc. Not just custom fields


In essence, what I would like CCRM to do is to have a permanent connection with CB (or Joomla) where regardless of the method users use to sign in (manually enterd in CCRM, CB registration, etc. They result as members on the other program.
Conceptually, this could be accomplished even with a cron triggered script (real time would be better, but I'd settle for a cron). The fields would need to be sycronize of CCRM should be taught to look into the CB database to extract the data.

CB is a great little application that allows users to participate in the site's community activities. It's simply not an option for us not to run CB. Too many useful features. The same stands for CCRM: one of CB great shortcomings it's its inability to list and sort users by anything other than username and last name. If CCRM could exchange data with CB properly it would certainly solve that issue.

In addition, I think it's silly to have to manually sync CCRM and CB fileds as I supposed I am forced to do now.

Has anyone got any ideas on this issue? Thank you

I'll second henry's post regarding CB <-> CiviCRM integration. Integrating two open source projects needs resources / funding / hours. So if folks out there are interested in the above integration, please step forward and in an open source way "scratch your own itch" Having this on your wishlist but not doing anything will not make the integration become reality

lobo