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CiviCRM Cookbook

You're reading from   CiviCRM Cookbook Improve your CiviCRM capabilities with this clever cookbook. Packed with recipes and screenshots, it's the natural way to dig deeper into the software and achieve more for your nonprofit or civic sector organization.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160441
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up CiviCRM FREE CHAPTER 2. Organizing Data Efficiently 3. Using the Power of Profiles 4. Controlling Permissions 5. Managing Communications 6. Searching and Reporting 7. Integrating CiviCRM with Drupal 8. Managing Events Effectively 9. Using Campaigns, Surveys, and Petitions Effectively 10. Working with CiviMember 11. Developing for CiviCRM Index

Mapping contact data


CiviCRM has excellent geolocation features. This means that you can map contact address data. For example, you could create a profile to hold data on voting intention, or political allegiance that you can then map. This means you can visualize the voting data.

How to do it…

CiviCRM's mapping features are very rudimentary, but, when linked to Drupal Views, they become very powerful. In this recipe we will use Drupal Views and Drupal Open Layers modules to produce a dynamic map that filters the display of contacts. In this example we will simply use the contact's last name as our filter.

  1. Navigate to Administer | System Settings | Geocoding and ensure that geocoding is set up correctly.

  2. Navigate to Administer | System Settings | Scheduled Jobs and ensure Address geocoder is enabled and scheduled.

  3. Install and enable the following modules:

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