CiviHR Manual Installation on Wordpress

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I am running CiviCRM 4.4 alpha and wanted to test the CiviHR extension as well.  I am not sure how to go about installing the extension manually (no automated installation is available -yet- for Wordpress).  Would appreciate detailed step-by-step instructions for manually installing CiviHR on a shared server (no shell access).

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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.

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We've posted new zip files for alpha3 and updated the references to the zip file (http://civicrm.org/extensions/civihr). So now the download step is:

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wget https://github.com/civicrm/civihr/archive/1.0-alpha3.zip

You would still extract that and upload the content to your server (/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/tools/extensions/civihr) and then manually enable the extensions.