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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Using activities for campaign planning


In any campaign, there are a million things to do and usually not enough people to do them! You can use CiviCRM to define these tasks, allocate them to people, schedule their completion, and check their progress.

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to Administer | System Settings and enable CiviCampaign.

  2. Navigate to Administer | CiviCampaign | Campaign types and add a campaign type. Name it Community Campaign.

  3. Navigate to Campaigns | New campaign and add a campaign.

  4. Set the title to Stop the Supermarket.

  5. Set the Campaign Type field to Community Campaign.

  6. Leave the start date as the current date.

  7. Set the Campaign status to In progress.

  8. Save the new campaign.

  9. Navigate to Administration | Customize Data and Screens | Activity Types and add some activity types. For example, add an Activity Type called Gather contacts.

  10. Add a custom field set for the Gather Contacts activity type and create a custom field to show what sort of contacts you want gathered.

  11. Add an activity and assign...

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