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How to make status always 'Completed' for activities added to a case?
Might be easiest to update the database is_default field. Works for me on a 4.6 site:
update civicrm_option_value set is_default=0 where option_group_id=26 and name='Scheduled';
update ...
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What is the recommended level of PHP for CiviCRM? There seems to be some inconsistencies
CiviCRM PHP requirements recommends PHP5.5 or greater, and notes PHP5.3.10 is the bare minimum required. As well as this, you want to be sure your PHP version is actively getting security updates, and ...
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What to do about "File 'Array' presents a security risk and should be deleted." on 4.7?
CiviCRM is not warning you about a file named Array.php, the confusing error message is because it's rendering a PHP array to a text string.
I've opened an issue in JIRA about this and submitted a ...
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What version am I running?
You can also check the version from the file: civicrm-version.php
in the downloaded folder of civicrm.
File path : civicrm/civicrm-version.php
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Help: Fatal error doing an export (Civi 4.7.4)
Line 435 in CRM/Export/BAO/Export.php that your error message is referring to says:
if (!empty(self::defaultReturnProperty($exportMode))) {
This will give an error in all PHP versions below 5.5. ...
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How to Disable Calls to CiviCRM site in 4.7?
There are multiple calls to CiviCRM.org in the site codebase, so it's not clear which are triggering errors on your site. These are some of the things you could do ...
Disable Version Checking
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How can I speed up a slow upgrade to 4.7?
The slowest part of upgrading on a large installation is usually the civicrm_mailing_event_* tables. That data is also often stale, so consider deleting it if you don't need to keep historical ...
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What differences are there between CiviCRM 4.6 and 4.7?
The performance improvements to move from 4.6 to 4.7 when you have a large installation is, in itself, worthwhile (we did it when we had about 500k contacts, we would have done it earlier if we'd ...
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How to remove notice at login
This is a preference you can set, but it's not exposed in the web interface. There's a section of civicrm.settings.php that documents it. In case you've upgraded from an older version of CiviCRM ...
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Upgrade to 4.7 breaks custom php
This does appear to be a legitimate issue, so I've created a bug in the tracker here: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-18079
Generally it's better not to use this folder for maintainability ...
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What version am I running?
If you have CiviCRM 4.7 then from the top menu:
Administer > Administration Console > System Status
Your version number will be in the CiviCRM Up-to-Date section.
[side note: the demo version of ...
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Exports in 4.7.6 are not working correctly
This is a bug and will be updated in the next release. In the meantime, you can use this PR to fix.
Further info on Jira.
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"Printer-friendly" pages
Agree, it's probably time to remove it.
Over on https://civicrm.org, it's handled like this:
.crm-container #printer-friendly {
display: none;
}
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Additional Fonts CKEditor
We had some more luck with the integrated UI configuration of CKeditor, and after some trial and error we came up with the following solution:
In the following documentation I will assume that the ...
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Is 4.7.x end-of-life? Why does my site say that 4.7 has reached the end-of-life?
There is a helpful explanation. The numbering system changed, this is detailed here
5.0.0 is the next version after 4.7.31 and is not a major update.
In The Q&A section there is an answer to ...
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How do I use the joins feature of the new API
The JIRA Issue for this feature https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17795 reads
This adds support for joins in api.get operations to fetch information
from more than one table.
It ...
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How to access the 4.7 Administrator Status Page?
@jdax worked on this at the Maryland sprint, and she's done except for a tiny bug to fix that a test just found. I expect it'll be included soon.
Alerts will have a link to the status page, and the ...
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How to access the 4.7 Administrator Status Page?
You posted this question almost exactly at the same time that a PR to merge in this feature was posted - see the last comment on the CRM-13823 issue.
I was part of the team that worked on this during ...
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What version am I running?
If you have access to your DB you can look in the civicrm_domain table for field= version
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Error: Could not create directory
General tip: When I've had problems like this (a mysterious setting/value/datum), one other technique is to search the full database. There's no direct way to do that in MySQL, but you can dump the ...
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How to make status always 'Completed' for activities added to a case?
You can use the buildForm hook on an activity to check if the activity belongs to a case (in which case case_id will not be empty I think) and then set the default status to Completed.
There is an ...
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How can arrange custom fields so they are side by side?
The case custom fields are formatted as a series of one row tables. You could add some jQuery to move them around.
For example:
CRM.$(function($) {
$('#Outcomes table:nth-of-type(3n+1)').each(...
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How can I speed up a slow upgrade to 4.7?
For the specific case of upgrading to 4.7, here's a useful tip from Dave Jenkins : https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-18526#comment-106825
In short: upgrading to 4.7 involves multiple changes ...
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Why has entering a date changed in 4.7.16? Can it be reverted?
There was an issue due to some refactoring around the handling of date fields to try to standardise them. This lead to a problem most notably in birth date fields in 4.7.16 but i'm guessing can be ...
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How can I fix this problem with duplicate index in 4.7.21?
You can apply this PR - and reload System status page. This will let you know in advance which indices are already present in DB and would result in DB error on hitting Update Indices button. So what ...
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What is the latest version of CiviVolunteer?
I think there is confusion on release date. Version 4.7.31-2.3.0 was released on March 2018 not March 2017. I guess the maintainer forgot to update the year to 2018 in info.xml file.
HTH
Pradeep
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How are recurring contributions (standing orders) implemented in 4.7?
I think you're asking a very UK-specific question about direct debit. UK has special rules for direct debit that CiviCRM doesn't know anything about. But the iATS Payments payment processor does ...
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What version am I running?
Another way from the API (4.7 onward) is to use the System.check API:
$result = civicrm_api3('System', 'check', array(
'name' => "checkVersion",
));
to get something like
Array
(
[is_error]...
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How to fix translations in CiviCRM 4.7
Exists an unresolved localization issue that probably explains your translation problems. You can see here:
CRM-17737
New Mailer dialog seems impossible to translate
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Using Profiles for Data Entry
In Drupal under Configuration > Development > Logging and Errors ie admin/config/development/logging you can set Errors and warnings to be 'off' and it is normal to do so on the production site, while ...
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