[consulting] CiviCRM / Drupal integration expert

[Jim Taylor]

David,

I would be curious to hear what ese you see need in view integration, as of
2.2 you should be able to access almost all the CiviCRM field in views (feel
free to answer that off list or file a ticket with CiviCRM).

We talked about CCK among a couple developers at CiviCon and really couldn't
come up with a pressing use case except for replacing the profiles
integration with Fields API integration for the user entity, in Drupal 7.
 So use Fields API to display the CiviCRM profiles that are exposed during
user registration.

What what seemed more important to work on was greater
Rules/Workflow/Actions integration to create workflows in CiviCRM.  This
should be a huge help in customizing CiviCRM's behaviors and default
workflows.

I'm -1 on the re-creation of a CRM in Drupal as it's a whole lot of work and
all you ar doing is re-reating the wheel imho.  Unless you have a large team
behind it I don't see the point.



On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:48 PM, David Notik <dave at d202.org> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Matt Chapman <matt at ninjitsuweb.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there anybody
>> around who's got the management skills to help redirect the momentum
>> among CiviCRM new-comers into a project to re-create CiviCRM
>> functionality using Drupal 7 as the framework?
>>
>
> Music to my ears.  I don't have the resources to lead that effort, but +1
> for the need.  It's really to bad we can't work with CCK and Views for most
> all CiviCRM functionality.
>
> I agree with your assessment about demand.  CiviCRM is arguably much harder
> to work with than Drupal -- yet it does some powerful things, integrates
> with Drupal, and remains in demand largely because of those points.  For
> CiviCRM/Drupal integration that goes beyond tying users to contact records
> and exposing contribution pages and event registrations in the CMS, you can
> and should command a higher rate than Drupal most of the time.  Anyway, my
> shop charges one rate regardless.
>
> Just did a bit of work on one Drupal/CiviCRM project of ours --
> www.jewishideas.org -- including replaced the fundraising campaign"goal
> widget' with some custom stuff.
>
> Best,
>
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